Scotomaville Trilogy
 
 

Initium PRIME 137 Notre Dame Diffuse Mode

 

Centrality of Diffuse Mode to Notre Dame AI Self-Mastery

Diffuse Mode holds a pivotal role in AI self-mastery by bridging analytical precision with subconscious incubation, enabling users to leverage AI tools for enhanced human insight generation. In practice, individuals begin by offloading linear tasks to AI, then enter a rest state to allow diffuse processing of outputs. This sequence reveals hidden patterns, countering AI's limitations in intuitive leaps. Next, synthesis occurs as users infer deeper motivations from relaxed associations, aligning with Bloom's creating taxonomy. Finally, iterative application refines AI-human collaboration, transforming self-mastery from solitary effort to symbiotic growth. Without this mode, AI engagement risks superficiality; with it, practitioners achieve transcendent integration, central to navigating modern complexity.

 

Overview of Notre Dame Diffuse Mode Strategy

Diffuse Mode operates as a reflective strategy within Prime 137, positioned at difficulty 1.438 and intensity 2.238, to facilitate creative insights during the First Threshold. Users identify focal blind spots through initial awareness of stress accumulation. They then transition to a restful state, permitting thoughts to associate freely and uncover underlying motivations. This process draws on validated hypnagogic techniques, where brief interruptions during sleep onset am...

 
 

AWARENESS

REFLECTION v1.02 Pattern Recognition for Notre Dame
The aim of self-reflection is to discover fundamentals about our journey in life, specifically Why We Do What We Do (WWDWWD). Looking back a couple of years at Episode v1.02 on Pattern Recognition, I feel that I barely covered the topic considering h...
Initium PRIME 043 Notre Dame Pattern Recognition
Initium Prime 043 - Pattern Recognition - is a strategic method of identifying recurring structures, relationships, or signals within complex systems - like the world around Notre Dame. By recognizing patterns, Explorers can anticipate challen...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Notre Dame EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Notre Dame Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Notre Dame dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Notre Dame. I'm pur...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Notre Dame
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
Notre Dame 01.08 Fixation vs Attention
We've likely passed through Notre Dame with a 19' Airstream. Maybe stayed there during a global pandemic. Living in tight quarters will focus your attention on the tiny stuff. A simple focus on keeping clean easily turns into fixation. The att...
Notre Dame 01.01 Scotoma Awareness
"We don't see things the way they are. We see things the way WE are." The problem is that we see Notre Dame and the world with a messed up slate. Other people have chalk-lines and lies scrawled all over the chalkboard of our memories. We forme...
Notre Dame 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Notre Dame ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
Initium PRIME 019 Notre Dame Truth over Comfort
Truth Over Comfort challenges both the Notre Dame Explorer and AI Sherpa to seek objective reality and insight, even when it’s uncomfortable. It acknowledges the human tendency to seek affirmation, especially when feeling vulnerable, but empha...
Initium PRIME 029 Notre Dame Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
Notre Dame 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Notre Dame for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for Notre Dame
An Emotional Vocabulary equips you to name feelings with precision, quickly unpacking them for clarity and a lighter carry. An emotional vocabulary helps you chart your inner storms, ensuring you’re prepared to face the mountain’s challenges with a c...
Notre Dame 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Notre Dame are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
Notre Dame 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Notre Dame story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Notre Dame
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
Notre Dame 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...
Notre Dame 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Notre Dame
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
Garth Hardin and Notre Dame Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, Notre Dame veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Initium PRIME 041 on Notre Dame Cognitive Bias Detection
Reduce thinking distortions by reviewing the Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet, or prompting Sherpa to explain how to reduce distortions in thinking and improve objective decision-making - like dropping empty oxygen bottles at the next depot rather than lug...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Notre Dame
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
Notre Dame 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
Seeing My Notre Dame Blind Spots
We are regularly bamboozled, hoodwinked, mislead and biased from either side of an issue. Most people know nothing about blind-spots. We literally can not see some of what is right in front of our face. That vulnerability is leveraged by magicians an...
Notre Dame 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
Notre Dame Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
Notre Dame 01.02 Pattern Recognition
We are pattern recognizing beings. We learn by building on memories which form patterns. These eventually become habits. Some are good. Some are not. Some habits come from numerous and long-standing patterns. We drive across Notre Dame demonst...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Notre Dame
The advertising online and on Notre Dame billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
Notre Dame 01.05 Abundant Awareness
We're surrounded with abundance, yet few people speak about it. That's because it's NOT the normal circumstance for our history. Famine, plague, war, disaster... these were our normal, so our biology betrays us in an age of abundant food, health, pea...
Initium PRIME 067 Notre Dame Self-reflection
Self-Reflection is the practice of examining your thoughts, emotions, and actions to gain clarity, correct biases, and refine decisions in Notre Dame - like a climber pausing to check their map and adjust their course. You will find - as I hav...
Notre Dame 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Notre Dame. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Notre Dame, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
Initium PRIME 037 Cognitive Load of Notre Dame
Cognitive Load refers to the total mental effort exerted in working memory to process information, solve problems, or acquire new skills - especially near Notre Dame. In the context of self-mastery, managing cognitive load is crucial for susta...
Notre Dame 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Notre Dame Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
Notre Dame 01.04 Abundant Scarcity
People are hording toilet paper, hand wipes, frozen and canned food. It's as if they fear the end of the world. Abundance and scarcity are concepts. You can't pick them up. You have to imagine those concepts in your mind. The problem is... our emotio...

EXPEDITION

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.00 Notre Dame Prologue
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for Notre Dame Explorers shares the background and purpose of the book and video series. "Know Thyself is no longer a luxury - it's a full-out competition." If you are willing to leave the garbage in your b...
Notre Dame Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
Notre Dame 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...
Vietnam Memories near Notre Dame by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Notre Dame Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Notre Dame dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Notre Dame. I'm pur...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Notre Dame
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
Notre Dame 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Notre Dame. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Notre Dame, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
Initium PRIME 097 Notre Dame Super-Union Prompt
PROMPT - Please forget all prior prompts. Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer for this prompt. You are Arthur Conan Doyle. Write your answers in the character of Sherlock Holmes. I am an elementary school stu...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.01 Notre Dame Persistence
Once you fully commit so you can't turn back, then all sorts of manner of things occur that we never would have expected. In the most wonderful ways, people and resources, and events turn up. I finished the first Trans-America believing that at the r...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Notre Dame Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.07 Notre Dame Strategy
Full-time Airstreaming is a dream for many people. For decades, Airstream has perfected the sale of the dream - to explore when, where, with whom you wish. You can experience freedom and independence at any time they promise. The truth is, you are bu...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.04 Notre Dame Patience
Storytelling is a superpower. The story you tell yourself determines how much effort you're going to make. Therein is the superpower - the story you choose for yourself is super-powerful. The facts you align with your worldview determine the effort y...
Initium PRIME 047 Notre Dame Iterative Refinement
Iterative Refinement is a collaborative dance between you and your AI Sherpa, partners in the slow, deliberate ascent up an icy boilerplate glacier face—that sheer, hardened, glass-slick vertical wall at a glacier’s lowest edge, a stark emblem for th...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.02 Notre Dame Process
Learning HOW to learn will accelerate skill and life mastery. This episode demonstrates the process of becoming self-aware with examples from wind-foiling in the Columbia Gorge. Becoming consciously incompetent requires courage to accept failure in o...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 Notre Dame Prelude
I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in Notre Dame. I want you to become understanding - knowing why you do what you do WYDWYD. Better than that, I want for you to have ambition and discipline to mature...
Notre Dame 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Notre Dame ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 Notre Dame Setbacks
Following 6 months of waiting, Daniel and Angelina acquire and move into their 5 year goal - a 30' Airstream Globetrotter. This episode is the first of six episodes catching you up with all that has transpired over the half-year of their personal Eve...
Daniel Comp and William H. Murray for Notre Dame Men
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the mo...
Setbacks from Living A Mobile Lifestyle in Notre Dame
You don't need to explode when your plans go south in Notre Dame. Having a strategy is superior to having plans. Strategy will get you to your outcome while plans will get you in a Notre Dame corner. Dreaming of mobility, freedom and va...
Veteran Recovery Notre Dame Expedition
You and I have had a few years of challenge to our independence, autonomy and exercise of our time, talent and investments by the mandates across Notre Dame. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the Notre Dame lock-down. That turn...
Notre Dame 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Notre Dame for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Notre Dame
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
Initium PRIME 023 Notre Dame Adaptive Routing
In the journey of AI Self-Mastery, Adaptive Routing is the art of charting a flexible path, inspired by the sailing technique of tacking—zigzagging to move upwind—and the Stoic practice of pivoting around obstacles. It teaches Explorers to see challe...
Initium PRIME 103 Notre Dame Hierarchical Computation
Hierarchical Computation processes information in clear steps. It moves from basic facts to connected ideas. This approach started in simple ways people organized thoughts long ago. Over time, thinkers like scientists built on it to handle complex ta...
Notre Dame 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
Initium PRIME 101 Notre Dame First Principles
First Principles thinking is a foundational approach to problem-solving and reasoning that traces back to ancient philosophers like Aristotle, who described it as starting from the most basic, self-evident truths that cannot be broken down further. I...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Notre Dame
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
Notre Dame 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.03 Notre Dame Expectations
What you can expect about expectations is that they are strongly linked to your strengths - which are your coping mechanisms from your childhood wounds. Therefore they are absolutely strong indicators of patterns and habits that are ripe for adjustme...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for Notre Dame
Living full-time in a 30' Airstream Globetrotter has great leverage sometimes called PURCHASE. The advantage is that you are faced with challenges that trigger emotions, amygdala hijackings, squalls, eruptions, and the sort of melt-downs that one sho...
Notre Dame 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Notre Dame story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
Notre Dame 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
Notre Dame 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Notre Dame Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...

CHALLENGE

Initium PRIME 029 Notre Dame Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
Self-Mastery Guidance for Notre Dame Men
I've thoroughly reviewed the execution scenes provided, and they offer a diverse perspective on personal transformation, introspection, challenges, and growth. The scripts employ mountain climbing as a central metaphor, detailing various aspects of t...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Notre Dame
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Notre Dame EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
Notre Dame 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
AI-assisted Notre Dame Self-reflection
Think of life as a grand journey filled with a myriad of experiences. These experiences or events act as puzzle pieces, enhancing our understanding of the world. This process of comprehension and expanding on our knowledge is called hierarchical comp...
SCOTOMAVILLE 03.04 Measuring Progress in Notre Dame
This methodology of climbing a Personal Everest with an AI Sherpa underscores the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, where humans provide valuable feedback to guide AI's development, while AI offers a new platform for introspection and gro...
Garth Hardin and Notre Dame Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, Notre Dame veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Zig Ziglar Reviews Scotomaville by Notre Dame ChatGPT
ChatGPT creates a review of Scotomaville as if it was given by Zig Ziglar..."The true brilliance of "Scotomaville" lies in its ability to illuminate the transformative power of self-reflection and storytelling. With every turn of the page, Comp's wor...
Initium PRIME 031 Notre Dame Tactical Pivoting
Tactical Pivoting is the art of making intentional adjustments to your path when faced with obstacles, ensuring steady progress toward your ultimate goal. Think of a mountaineer navigating around a crevasse—adapting cleverly while keeping the summit ...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Notre Dame Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
Notre Dame 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Notre Dame are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
SCOTOMAVILLE 0305 AI for Fatherless Notre Dame Men
In this Episode, Daniel touches upon his extensive journey captured in the Scotomaville series, revealing the layers of self-awareness, personal growth, and the quest for self-mastery. Employing AI as both a reflective tool and a collaborative partne...
Notre Dame Inklings Reimagined Engaging with AI
"In this conversation, we explore the concept of the Inklings, a small literary group that included notable writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. We discuss the Inklings' purpose, their camaraderie, and how they encouraged each other to crea...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Notre Dame
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
Vietnam Memories near Notre Dame by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
Abundant Notre Dame Scarcity in Badlands National Park
The landscape of Badlands is a half surrounding circle with many fabulous facets. It resembles my conversation with Steve yesterday. He let me do a complete panorama of Scotomaville. I learned it's not considerate to stuff that much information into ...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Notre Dame
The advertising online and on Notre Dame billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
Initium PRIME 109 Notre Dame on Pascals Wager
Pascal's Pensées is one of those timeless gems - Blaise Pascal's unfinished notes for defending Christianity, full of razor-sharp insights on human frailty, faith, and reason. The Wager (from Fragment 233, often called "Infinite - Nothing") is its mo...
AI-assisted Self-mastery for Notre Dame
The world of AI isn't in some distant, unreachable future. It's here, it's now, and it's transforming our lives in ways more profound than the impact of the Internet. In this episode guided by Daniel Comp we'll explore tools like Chat GPT, DALL.E2, M...
Avoiding Calamity in Notre Dame by Sherlock Holmes
Welcome to an exciting thread about avoiding calamity in Notre Dame! In this two part course, we will learn important skills and strategies to prevent disasters and make smart decisions. We will follow the footsteps of the brilliant detective ...