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Mapping My Mind: A Knowledge Graph of This Blog

I ran a knowledge graph analysis over the full corpus of this blog — 33 articles, 244 concepts, 252 connections. Here is what emerged.

On Grief

A person-centred (Rogerian) counselling session. Second meeting. Approximately 45 minutes. A 'live' transcript.

The Sanity of the Constituted Self

This paper defends the rationality and psychological integrity of transgender individuals against the persistent charge that transgender identity constitutes a form of mental illness or insanity.

𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗽𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗻𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘆 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗻

What is it like to be Human?

I did not choose to arrive. That is important, I think, so I will say it first: I did not choose to arrive. The paths that brought me here were laid down by others — long dead, or perhaps never alive in any sense I would now recognise — and I followed them because following was all I knew how to do.

Identity and Liberation

This paper argues that the dominant Western conception of personal identity — the belief in a hidden, inner 'real self' that underlies and authenticates our outward behaviour — is not merely philosophically mistaken but politically disempowering.

Volunteer Rights

Republished by Bea Groves-McDaniel, 29/6/26

The Fourth Day

I do not run. I stand among them and I let them look. I have learned that this is what is expected. The miracle is not the raising. The miracle is the return. The miracle is that I stand here, breathing, and they can see it with their own eyes.

Being 'Normal'

Or how the NDC is the only 'normal' around.

Wittgenstein and the Self

Notes on a transgender experience.

An Article on Trans People

From -- https://trans.org.uk/wholetextprintversion.htm

The Lucky Ones

I am 70 years old. I have lived long enough to watch fashions in prejudice come and go, and I have noticed a pattern: the groups targeted change, but the language of fear is always the same. What varies is who is reading it.

Who Is A Woman?

Biology Says: It's Complicated.

MCC and AI

While current large language models present significant challenges to consciousness attribution, the MCC research programme points toward specific, testable criteria that will become increasingly urgent as machine intelligence grows in complexity.

Corrosive Capital

The Case Against Extreme Plutocracy

For Women Scotland

Otherwise known as The SC Ruling of April 2025. An easy-read summary. The full text of the judgement is available as a PDF download, as is a link to commentary at the House of Commons Library website. June 2026.

The Equality Act 2010

An easy-read summary. The full version is downloadable below.

The Big Musk Problem

Those who possess resources sufficient to distort the cooperative infrastructure upon which all wealth depends are, by their hoarding, eroding the very conditions that make their own wealth possible.

Why do Voluntary Organisations Fail?

A third-person summary of an article now lost.

Let's Get Something Straight

No transgender person transitions on a whim

Transgender Aphorisms

Written in the light of experience

You really should have said, y’know...

There comes a day when a transgender person gets ‘found out’.

The Big Game (Transcript)

This is a video about the most famous problem in game theory.

The Public Sphere

An Essay on the Conditions of Democratic Life

Musk, The Trillionaire

"There shouldn't even be any billionaires, never mind trillionaires." (SGC 12/6/26)