User:Ekpyrotic Architect

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Hi to anyone who might read this.

I'm an Australian user of Wikipedia (since 2005) and have very occasionally added a few words here and there to articles. Most of what I have contributed in the past is in correcting the odd (or major) typo, or in some extreme cases, correcting hideous grammatical errors. A few instances have involved discovering that an editor has incorrectly dated an event, or made a common attribution error (such as attributing something to someone who is commonly believed to have been responsible, but in fact was not). Usually I will only correct these things after doubly-rechecking my own sources, as although I have an exceptionally good memory myself, I do not store dates and sources in my head in an encyclopedic fashion (excepting of course my own record of actual personal experiences).

I have extremely broad intellectual tastes, with particular interests in diverse topics such as:

• evolution; in conjunction with (but not limited to):
  • genetics and biological theories
  • memetics along with anthropology and an interest in ancient cultures
  • dinosaurs (just like any kid of the late 70s)
• analytical sociology and popular culture
• physics, in particular:
  • superstring theory
  • cosmology
  • quantum theories
• number theory (and in general, much in the way of abstract algebra)
• personology - not the modern "Judge Jones" understanding of the term, rather in the original Henry Murray sense of being a kind of longitudinal theory of personality development, or as defined by Murray, the

  ... branch of psychology which principally concerns itself with the study of human lives and the factors that influence their course, which investigates individual differences and types of personality, may be termed "personology" instead of "the psychology of personality," a clumsy and tautological expression. Personology, then, is the science of men, taken as gross units. ...

• surfing and its history
• acting and performance, including also
  • practical aesthetics (a theory of acting and stage presentation)
  • theatre
  • commedia dell'arte (15th century Italian masked acting)
• programming and systems analysis
• biographies
• gothic and sublime (and similar) styles of writing and their histories
• science fiction, in both a literary and cinematic sense
• evolution of religious and mythological ideas
• journalism
• aesthetic surgery and its history

and so on.

Broadly, I am interested in the study of the evolution of ideas (and the evolution of the idea of the evolution of ideas, and ... yep - probably worth leaving that one right there).

I'm a graduate of an Australian university, holding both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts.

[edit] References

Murray, H. A. (1938). Explorations in personality. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195305067 (forthcoming 2008 edition).