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==About this Website==
 
==About this Website==
This site is a variation on a project I've been thinking about for years, which I used to call the [[Mental Toolkit]]. The Mental Toolkit would be a collection of [[Conceptual Scheme]]s which, by accurately reflecting how the world works, helps the person to untake individual and collective projects.
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This site is a variation on a project I've been thinking about for years, which I used to call the [[Mental Toolkit]]. The Mental Toolkit is a collection of [[Conceptual Scheme]]s which, by reflecting how the world works, help the person to untake individual and collective projects. If the mental schemes accurately reflect how the world in fact works, the projects are more likely to succeed.
  
The problem is that, as soon as I start investigating any particular [[Conceptual Scheme]], I find myself drowning in a vast sea of specialized knowledge. Meanwhile I discover that my own personal [[Real Life]] is disintegrating because I am spending too much time on the computer. But just as I started making [http://sluserguide.com Danton's Second Life User Guide] in order to increase my own knowledge of [[Second Life]], my basic reason for making this present site is to increase my own knowledge of [[Real Life]].
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As soon as we start investigating any particular [[Conceptual Scheme]], we come across a vast sea of existing specialized knowledge.  
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Just as I started making [http://sluserguide.com Danton's Second Life User Guide] in order to increase my own knowledge of [[Second Life]], my basic reason for making this present site is to increase my own knowledge of [[Real Life]].
  
 
==Status of the Website==
 
==Status of the Website==

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