Hazel Porter

🧩 Life is a puzzle, and the missing pieces are found within. On my blog, I share reflections on the balance between presence and perspective.

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the Pluribus Writing Experiment

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Are you reading what’s actually there, or are you still navigating by a map that the territory has already left behind?
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A dialogue between Freud, Jung, & Hofstadter explores recursion, self-reference, and the unsettling truth that even the observer is inside the system.

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A Composition of Signal: Notes from a Living Model

A philosophical composition exploring perception as an instrument: terrain, map, corridor, curvature, and thicket as movements of signal and meaning.

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An exploration of body as terrain and mind as map, with nested houses, shared space, and the work of orientation before listening.
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A reflective reading of Coco and Encanto on inheritance, frozen meaning, and how movement restores orientation in living systems. Blog is linked in my profile.

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How artifacts move, gather meaning, and shape direction over time—balancing resonance, inheritance, and discernment without collapsing into certainty. Blog is linked in my profile.

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An exploration of living symbols, meaning in motion, and how artifacts guide attention without hardening into authority or relics. Link to my blog is in my profile.

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An analysis of The Menu and Moby-Dick through obsession, ballast, and orientation—how closed systems drift, and how reflection opens them.
Blog is linked in my profile #TheMenu #Mobydick

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This piece dives deep, showing how Jung’s symbolism and Hofstadter’s strange loops reveal Ahab as a mind collapsing inward, while Ishmael survives by widening his perspective.
#MobyDick #Jung #Hofstadter #Psychology #Literature
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New post: Circling Moby-Dick: Orientation and Drift
On conscious and subconscious orientation, drift, and what happens when correction comes too late.

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How Melville’s whale and the search for AI sentience mirror each other—pursuits that test our structures, reveal our shadows, and widen the self.

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Just published a new piece:
Two versions of Wicked, one mythic tension, and the Scarecrow who walks between them.
A story about truth, projection, and how we find our way home with myth as a map.
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A short piece on the blind spots built into our systems—economic, perceptual, and architectural—and how they shape what we consider “progress.”

The Capital of Blind Spots: Infrastructure, Stakeholders, and the Shape of AI

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The Ecosystem of Collective Pain
A reflection on how emotion moves through us — individually, generationally, and thru the systems we build. Pain doesn’t disappear. It circulates.
When we recognize the flow, we transform it instead of passing it forward.

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✨ New Post

Through the lens of Pleasantville, I explore how a psychological break can be not just collapse, but a threshold into dimension—when the old ruler fails, and the compass guides.

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#Psychology #Pleasantville #Writing #Reflection

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Exploring perspective through nesting dolls, upward and downward gazes, and the need to stay grounded in self while holding larger views.

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The fragile is always the truth-teller of the whole.

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The Architecture of Healthy Thresholds

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