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 +Humans as a species operate within a framework of symbolic representation that enables us to articulate ideas, share ideas, plan, design, make decisions, and reflect. We associate this with literacy, but for the majority of human evolution, we used very different frameworks, sometimes even the landscape itself to organise thought. All over the world cultures associated knowledge to features in the landscape; the Aboriginal songlines of Australia, the Native American pilgrimage trails, and the Neolithic causeways and henges of Europe. This is landscape as mind-palace. Bringing practices together from a wide range of sources I’ve been experimenting in my area of Amsterdam with these almost entirely forgotten ‘techniques’ of ‘applied animism'. It has transformed not just how I think, but also how I perceive and relate to my environment and my view of the human organism. 
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 ==== Monster Code ==== ==== Monster Code ====
  
-//Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge and wisdom directly into the environment (or objects). Oral cultures tap into two immensely powerful forms of human memory for storing knowledge: +//Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge and wisdom directly into the environment (or objects). Kelley identifies how orality taps into two immensely powerful forms of human memory for storing knowledge: 
   * monster: **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More than “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.   * monster: **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More than “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.
   * code: **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.   * code: **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.
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   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceque_system|inca ceque]]   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceque_system|inca ceque]]
   * ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands   * ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands
-  * neolithic causeways and henges of Europe+  * neolithic causeways, processional avenues and henges of Europe
  
  
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 Data sets: Data sets:
   * European elephants    * European elephants 
-  * 10 famous female pirates+  * 10 famous [[female pirates]]
   * 3 flooded villages   * 3 flooded villages
   * recipe for sandcookies   * recipe for sandcookies
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   * thinging, the idea that humans think with and through material things[6]   * thinging, the idea that humans think with and through material things[6]
   * neuroarchaeology, an archaeology informed by neuroscience.: Renfrew and Malafouris first suggested and thus coined the term.   * neuroarchaeology, an archaeology informed by neuroscience.: Renfrew and Malafouris first suggested and thus coined the term.
 +  * see also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_mind_thesis|Extended Mind Theory]]
  
 ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ====
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