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Status: Personal Identity (2023 - June)

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Summary of Progress during April - June 2023
  1. I spent 150.25 hours in 23Q2 on this Project, or related work (497.25 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2022). That's 65% of the planned effort (71% YTD). Overall, 19.8% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 25.6% YTD) - as against 30.5% planned (34.2% YTD).
  2. As can be seen, I used only about 2/3 of my time budget – which had been retained at the reduced amount from the previous quarter. The reason for the shortfall for this project was partly down to the distraction of our new dog, Bertie, but mostly– as has so often been the case – down to a resurgence of Bridge, both playing and administrative duties.
  3. However, I did quite a lot directly related to my Thesis – in particular reviewing the other half of my Thesis Notes.
  4. To control the various links within my Thesis, I’ve created and maintained a PID Note Usage5 Page, though this didn’t get much of a look in this Quarter.
  5. I completed four books started last Quarter, namely:-
    "Benjamin (Medea), Davies (Nicolas J.S.), vanden Heuvel (Katrina) - War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict",
    "Hand (David) - The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles and rare events happen all the time",
    "Ricketts (Peter) - Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next", and
    "Zamoyski (Adam) - Poland: A history",
  6. I added three more books to my collection, the last two at the suggestion of my son, Nat, for immediate reading:-
    "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World",
    "Frankl (Viktor E.) - Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust", and
    "Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) - The Little Prince".
    Indeed, I’ve now read the last two, though the book by Frankl deserves more comments than I’ve given it so far.
  7. It’s never possible to do it justice to Aeon, when a dozen or so interesting papers turn up every week. I continue to lose the fight to restrict the top priority to 10 items. Some work to do next quarter.
  8. Progress between reports can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List6.
  9. A full list of items worked on in the quarter appears below:-
    Thesis (Total Hours = 93)
    1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 85)
    2. Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 8)
    Thesis Background (Total Hours = 32.25)
    1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 27)
    2. Thesis Background - Books Admin
    3. Thesis Background - Status
    Thesis (Aeon) (Total Hours = 25)
Plans for the Near Future – Top Priority Tasks



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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note: (of 88)

Date Length Title
30/04/2023 01:06:14 17972 Status: Personal Identity (2023 - March)
10/01/2023 23:35:31 13323 Status: Personal Identity (2022 - December)
10/10/2022 22:32:10 14411 Status: Personal Identity (2022 - September)
03/07/2022 01:29:17 19603 Status: Personal Identity (2022 - June)
11/04/2022 00:01:26 17429 Status: Personal Identity (2022 - March)
03/01/2022 23:58:34 25490 Status: Personal Identity (2021 - December)
02/07/2021 20:32:38 17373 Status: Personal Identity (2021 - June)
03/04/2021 19:58:05 33235 Status: Personal Identity (2021 - March)
04/01/2021 19:40:48 27330 Status: Personal Identity (2020 - December)
04/10/2020 00:27:22 34087 Status: Personal Identity (2020 - September)
03/07/2020 22:09:07 34006 Status: Personal Identity (2020 - June)
04/04/2020 00:14:24 24588 Status: Personal Identity (2020 - March)



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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Aeon Papers Animalism Closest Continuer Henry PID Note, Book & Paper Usage
Psychological Continuity - Forward Status: Philosophy of Religion (2023 - June) Status: Summary Task List (2023: July - September) Status: Thesis Dashboard (2023: September) Theo Todman's BA Papers
Thesis - Current Stance Thesis - Introduction Thesis - Journals    

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Simon - T1S1T1 Status: Consciousness Studies (2023 - June) Status: Priority Task List (2023 - September) Status: Summary (2023 - June), 2 Status: Summary Task List (2023: July - September)
Status: Summary Task List (YTD: 22Q4 - 23Q3) Theo Todman's Philosophy Page Theo Todman's Philosophy Research Thesis - Method & Form Website - Progress to Date (2023 - September), 2
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5        

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

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Todman (Theo) Thesis - The Form of the Argument Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes



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