“The quest for original synthesis is a bear hunt. Sometimes you hunt the bear and bag it. Sometimes the bear hunts you into a rabbit hole. It's not a cautious or safe intellectual pursuit.”
JMF
“Thoughtwork;
Inducing and Deploying a 24/7 Mind”
“A Personal History of An Idea”
By
John M Frazier
(180 pages)
© 2026 John M Frazier
Foreword - (5 pages)
“The 24/7 Mind Defined”
“It's not just something that afflicts someone, a pathology. One is inducing an unusual neurological state of arousal and connectivity and then channeling it intellectually.”
[Appendix A
“Dopamine, Connectivity, and Arousal”
(5 pages)]
Prologue - (10 pages)
(A Manichean Walk on the Wild Side)
“A 24/7 Mind Creating Order Out of Chaos”
Part 1 - (48 pages)(Appendix A Applied)
“Inducing a 24/7 Mind”
A Mind in Becoming (~6000 words)
“Pushing Back Against the Darkness with Books”
(All About Books for Children)
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
(Encyclopedia Britannica Jr)
(Manichaeism in Encyclopedia Britannica)
Environmental Neurological Hostility
A predisposition to psychological and neurological arousal
Overexcited vs hypomania vs mania
Intellectual Deprivation (~6000 words)
“Poetry, Nature, and Integration”
Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas,
Basketball, Hiking
Part 2 - (46 pages)
(Ideas are Born of Other Ideas)
“Channeling a 24/7 Mind Into the Light”
From Book to Book to Book
“Hunting the Bear”
“...future thinkers take too much time to write, and when written come, in general, too slowly into notice and repute, to be relied on for subsistence.”
JS Mill
The bear hunt for original ideas is a driven state of various privations. It is not for everyone nor lightly undertaken. It is either what one does, who one is, or the enterprise will certainly come to grief.
JMF
Foundation (~4500 words)
Aristotle, Kant
Language and Reality (~3500 words)
Shannon, Köhler, Whorf
Analytical Frame (~3500 words)
Kuhn, Thom,
Part 3 (40 pages)
“The 24/7 Mind Generates a Big Idea”
A Mind in Being (25 pages)
“The Bear Also Hunts”
A Degree in Operations Management
(W. Edwards Deming)(Frederick Taylor)
(Adam Smith)
"Taylor and Deming disagreed about means — individual optimization vs. system optimization — but both believed reality yields to rational analysis. I followed Deming's path but Taylor's conviction that measurement matters informed my thinking.”
The Essential Insight:
"Markets, and the means of production that are coordinated by them through prices, are both “ordering engines” that order talent by allocating resources to the respective talents of the moment, arbitrage or directive intelligence.”
Total Integration (~2500 words)
“I have now, I believe, mentioned all the books which had any considerable effect on my early mental development.
From this point I began to carry on my intellectual cultivation by writing still more than by reading. JS Mill
A Complete Idea for a Theory
(~1200 words)
American Linguistic Instrumentalism
(The Bear Itself)
(~2500 words)
[Appendix B
“American Linguistic Instrumentalism”
(10 pages)
Part 4
“Maintaining My 24/7 Mind”
A Regimen
(25 pages)
[Physical (~1300 words)]
-Repetitive Exercise en plein air,
Bicycling, Hiking
[Intellectual (~1300 words)]
-Reading Serious Books w/Adventures
History, Science, Philosophy, Noir Detective Stories
[Creative (~1300 words)]
Poetry, Short Story, and Essay Writing
Working Through Context and Ideas
[Nutritional (~1300 words)]
Pasta and Protein w/Exercise
C, D3, and BComplex, B12
Peanut butter, honey,
caffeine, and cinnamon.
[Conclusion (~1300 words)]
Alternate Input & Integration en plein air
(Which regimen is suspect at current elevated levels of mold spores and ozone.)
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