Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:30:46 -0700 From: Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020528183046.GA34045@quidquam.com> In-Reply-To: <20020528104724.B37937@lpt.ens.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205261919370.49175-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> <20020527104558.B43610@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p05111701b917c51e8100@[137.120.142.179]> <3CF2710E.BE2710EC@mindspring.com> <20020528104724.B37937@lpt.ens.fr>
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* Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd@online.fr) wrote: > Terry Lambert said on May 27, 2002 at 10:46:54: > > > I would argue that this issue is handled largely by reflex, with > > > relatively little conscious thought. What conscious thought has gone > > > into this process happened before the situation began, so your reflex > > > is going to be guided by your memory of the overall situation > > > immediately before the unexpected occurrence. > > > > You know, I was going to liken driver's training and playing such > > situations over in your head before the event itself, to a "kata", > > which is (basically) a martial arts technique for training reflexes to > > carry through into useful actions. But then I thought "Naw, they'd > > never buy that one". 8-). > > Actually, I would argue that all thought really occurs at some such > subconscious level, and when you're thinking "consciously" you're > really playing these thoughts back to yourself. You can force > yourself to think about a problem, but often the answer comes to you > as a sudden insight when you're thinking about something else (or > think you're thinking about something else). Training and practice > (in mathematics or computer programming or whatever) serve only to > streamline this unconscious process. Haven't you all stared at a math problem with a blank mind and had the non-trivial answer just pop out of your mouth? That's all the proof *I* need to believe that my brain is doing more than what I can observe directly. Or when you can't think of a word/concept/name/etc, and then the next day you randomly yell it out as your subconsious google finally returns a result... ;) The idea that thought is bound by the limits of language is not only rediculous, it's scary. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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