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June 18, 2010
So - here's an attempt at a beginning conversation to set a framework....
Evolution of consciousness requires the changing of ideas and beliefs. We express ourselves through language. Putting these things together brings to mind for me the later Wittgenstein of 'On Certainty' or the 'Red' book.
Language is the river we all swim in and like a river it flows and changes. There are elements that are fixed, the big boulders in the river, but even over time these can be worn and shaped. Through language we create and describe our world.
As much as we want change to be instant and effortless, the river does not flow that way. What can we consciously change in our uses of language to influence the flow of the river? Are RS, and ESM, 'language development processors'? If so, then how can we 'export' those products to the larger community?
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Language ... and Pause
— Jul 30, 2010
Knowing of speech ... speaking of knowing.
Is it language that introduces ones knowing to themselves, and others ... as if anew ... or do words merely tell us all we do not know .. or haven't been aware of until that point of enunciation?
As if language being "self expressive" ... it's own medium unto itself ..'lest another actually hear ... and find comparative relativity.
In Sanskrit there is a term "Sravana" - the "hearing of what can be named" .. in the sense that we "listen" only to the degree we do not "actually hear" the intrinsic value in the sound being expressed.
The very sound of syllables being "causally effective" ... like the "do-re-mi" of music ... a reality all unto itself .. which one causally tunes into .. "learning to know" .. so to speak.
Is there such a thing as "non-descriptive" language ... voice itself as a means of understanding for it's own sake.
Or "to know only in relationship to" ... as no things are truly known outside of their own self-expression.
Language the attempt to make ones inherent knowing exist in relationship to the thing named .. rather than existentially "contain" the knowledge of a thing within the name.
"Philosophy" - the affiliation with one's inherent state of knowing ... {Cit - Sanskrit} ... or "sophistry" - the containment within suppositional probability of things outside of one's self at the very expense of such inherent knowing.
Panpsychism
— Jan 08, 2011
Panpsychism is a very ancient philosophy that implies that ALL things are based from consciousness. This is my area of interest that has "evolved" from my mental experiences in the field of Thermodynamics and my physical experiences as a Marathon swimmer. A troika evolves that requires a consideration of emotional experiences from the murky business of consciousness.
To integrate these is my goal, where all starts from "nothing"...... and proceeds to where it is at NOW. This is my first post in an attempt to find where I belong in this web site as a new member.
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