The theme of “My role models and heroes” is a cornerstone of the archive, representing a “constellation map” of the figures who shaped my moral compass, writing style, and creative philosophy,.
Literary & Philosophical Role Models
• Ray Bradbury: I identify him as a “literary role model” and a “foundational touchstone”,. I would NOT be the person I am today without the literary role model that is Ray Bradbury, (a man who taught me to, emotively, daub and paint and express my own exquisitely chosen words with the same illuminating pastel of colour that Bradbury uses.
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• Socrates: He is cited as a primary philosophical role model. You note that “my role model, Socrates also, seem to have had a sharp understanding of the realities of true human condition” and that you “can still cry lamenting the loss and death of Socrates when I read [The Last Days of Socrates]”,.
• Frank Townshend: The author of Earth is credited with shaping your character. You reflect: “if I was a ChatGPT or an AGI, I’d love to have the morals and wisdom of Frank Townshend as my own moral compass“.
• Marcus Aurelius: One of your “heroes of history,” whose book Meditations you describe as “the book Jesus should have wrote!”,.
Personal Mentors & Pillars
• Dave Peters: Your childhood English teacher who provided “the greatest gift he could” by telling you: “Chris Goodland. If you had to write a story about the inside of a ping pong ball, you would always make it interesting!“,.
• Nan (Daisy Goodland): Described as the “bedrock of my compassion” and one of the “essential pillars of my character”,. You note that you “learned all about life and the meaning of love from… My Nan”.
Historical & Scientific Heroes
• Nikola Tesla: Cited as an inspiration for the “seductive nature of inventing and creativity”,.
• Archimedes: You describe him as your “ideal” in the realm of invention, noting that the inventor gives the world “creations which are palpable, which live and work”.
• The “First Upright Hominid”: A recurring “hero of history” for being the one “who discovered the power of FIRE!”.
Thematic Listings
The archive contains a dedicated list of “FEATURED TOPICS” regarding heroes, which includes:
• Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Mary Shelley, and Tesla,.
• Mary Anning, the fossil hunter, is also highlighted as a figure of geographic and historical significance in your Dorset chronicles.
This category is extensively supported by existing material, ranging from deep philosophical dialogues to explicit lists of influential historical figures,,.
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