Sunday, February 9, 2025
Words are little communisms
By Charles Brown The following reminded me of one of the unique characteristics of language: meaningless things , individual sounds , letters-phonemes that are meaningless , refer to nothing , are combined to make words that have meaning .
“Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"[1]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
//////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\ Charles : Duality of Patterning Distinctive sounds, called phonemes, are arbitrary and have no meaning. But humans can string these sounds in an infinite number of ways to create meaning via words and sentences.
Phonemes-letters ( meaningless things ) are to words-combination of phonemes ( meaningful) as individual humans-selves ( meaningless ) are to groups of humans ( meaningful ) . Meaning is inherently communication or communist . Words are little communisms .
“Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"[1]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
//////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\ Charles : Duality of Patterning Distinctive sounds, called phonemes, are arbitrary and have no meaning. But humans can string these sounds in an infinite number of ways to create meaning via words and sentences.
Phonemes-letters ( meaningless things ) are to words-combination of phonemes ( meaningful) as individual humans-selves ( meaningless ) are to groups of humans ( meaningful ) . Meaning is inherently communication or communist . Words are little communisms .
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Value, Price and Profit" (German: "Lohn, Preis und Profit") is a transcript of an English-language lecture series delivered to the First International Working Men's Association on June 20 and 27, 1865 by Karl Marx. The text was written between the end of May and June 27 in 1865, while Capital, Volume I was in preparation and one year before it was published. Value, Price and Profit was published as a book in 1898 by Marx's daughter Eleanor Marx Aveling.[1][2]
In this text, Marx sought to refute the theoretical basis for the economic policy of Ricardian socialist John Weston. Weston said that "(1) that a general rise in the rate of wages would be of no use to the workers; (2) that therefore, etc., the trade unions have a harmful effect".[2] In the process of criticizing Weston, Marx's explicates his theories of surplus value and the falling rate of profit in simple and concise English.
they lived for a long time with this condition which shows that even way back then, 1.85 million 6:25 years ago, humans were starting to be really super cooperative. And that is ultimately our strength, 6:33 that is ultimately the reason I believe that is ultimately the reason I believe why we have expanded across the entire 6:38 planet and achieved everything we've achieved, because we can work together, achieved, because we can work together,
"they lived for a long time with this condition which shows that even way back then, 1.85 million
years ago, humans were starting to be really super
cooperative. And that is ultimately our strength,
6:33
that is ultimately the reason I believe
that is ultimately the reason I believe why we have expanded across the entire
6:38
planet and achieved everything we've achieved, because we can work together,
achieved, because we can work together,
we can communicate, we can share information share loads of information. This skull, 6:48 this toothless skull, we can really see in this person's lack of teeth there, like the 6:56 start of humanities the start of Humanity's greatest strength I really believe that.
There's been a lot of debates as to how we should categorize the Dmanisi hominins. Should they be 7:06 called Homo erectus? Or maybe georgicus? Maybe something else? In my opinion these labels are not super important, what is important that they show that 1.85 million years ago, small brained hominins, using very simple tools, were leading very social lives, and were capable of adapting to different
Charles Brown: And humans can be super cooperative because of LANGUAGE/SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION WITH ITS DISPLACEMENT CAPACITY
Furthermore , Displacement enables communication from dead generations of our species ! CUSTOM, CULTURE , TRADITION , HISTORY ! Accumulation of knowledge down through the generations https://youtu.be/9btN6H7H3Rg?si=29VgYhSAimiJuKfT
we can communicate, we can share information share loads of information. This skull, 6:48 this toothless skull, we can really see in this person's lack of teeth there, like the 6:56 start of humanities the start of Humanity's greatest strength I really believe that.
There's been a lot of debates as to how we should categorize the Dmanisi hominins. Should they be 7:06 called Homo erectus? Or maybe georgicus? Maybe something else? In my opinion these labels are not super important, what is important that they show that 1.85 million years ago, small brained hominins, using very simple tools, were leading very social lives, and were capable of adapting to different
Charles Brown: And humans can be super cooperative because of LANGUAGE/SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION WITH ITS DISPLACEMENT CAPACITY
Furthermore , Displacement enables communication from dead generations of our species ! CUSTOM, CULTURE , TRADITION , HISTORY ! Accumulation of knowledge down through the generations https://youtu.be/9btN6H7H3Rg?si=29VgYhSAimiJuKfT
