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Basic Thoughts

“Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence;
to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.”

– Marilyn Ferguson, as quoted in “Implementing Domain Driven Design”, Vaughn Vernon (2013)

If you can think, then you can think in NeurUL. The question is, can we all read or write in NeurUL? Naturally – in every sense of the word. Let’s give it less than 3 mins.

Time check! 

Consider thoughts of a Dog and a Cat.
They’re both individual thoughts.

Now consider another thought,
that of an Animal.

We all know that both Dogs and Cats are Animals.
So let’s make links from them to the thought Animal.

In NeurUL terms:

1. Thoughts Animal, Dog, and Cat are all Neurons.

2. Animal is a postsynaptic Neuron or an “Intension”
(let us stick with the latter since it is easier to remember)
of the Neurons Dog and Cat.

3. Neurons Dog and Cat are presynaptic Neurons or “Extensions”
(let us also stick with the latter)
of the Neuron Animal.

That’s it.

Now we can say that according to our example,
and as per NeurUL terms:

A “Dog is an Animal”

…and that also a “Cat is an Animal“

Let us add one more Neuron to our budding Brain – Favourite.

So how do we express that the owner of this Brain has a preference for Dogs?

You guessed it.

Simply define the Neuron Dog with the Neuron Favourite.

Done!

Easy, wasn’t it?

Time-check

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