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Another letter to LEGO...
Dear LEGO,
So, now that the NXT is in hands other than the MDP's, I wanted to write to you again and revisit some of my original items as well as some new ones.
First, some revisits:
1. I would still love a Black NXT Intelligent Brick. Black robots are just cool (to me). How about a NXT Nano?
2. So far, the only product I see listed on the official website is the basic retail kit (product # 8527). The tab says "Products" (plural) so I'm hoping to see some new stuff soon. But I'm patient.
3. We need an OFFICIAL NXT FORUM. No offense, but the current one doesn't offer much right now besides "NXT RULEZ!" and similar posts...
4. The link to new Building Instructions via "My Portal" in the software - cool. Give us more, please... including programming instructions.
5. I would like to know (and I'm sure others are curious, too) about feedback you are receiving from teachers/educators who are using or plan on using it in the classroom. I imagine there's not a lot right now, but you're going to have to be your own cheerleader right now until others begin sharing their successes (and failures) online.
6. I'd still love a quarterly or bi-annual NXT magazine, but I'm sure that's low on your list right now. And make it free to students if you ever offer it.
And now some new items:
1. Others have requested it and I'd like to add my own vote: Please PLEASE consider adding Technic components to the LEGO Factory. Letting us purchase mixtures of pieces to further customize our bots would be a great feature. I imagine that letting us purchase individual pieces (go ahead and set a minimum order level) will generate more income than you anticipate.
2. Design Contests - Stir up the excitement NOW and offer up some prizes for a few design categories. How about the 4 in the software - Humanoids, Animals, Machines, Vehicles? You need to get some more bots in the public eye other than Spike and AlphaRex and the best way to do it is to let your customers do it for you. (You gave the MDP a Grand Challenge - now give the general public one. - (NOTE: I'll be posting a writeup on the MDP Grand Challenge very soon, readers).
3. Offer up a nice financial prize for the person or team that builds the FIRST LEGO Mindstorms NXT biped. There's been some discussion on what would be needed to build one on The NXT STEP blog and BNXT and there's doubt as to its viability. Money talks - offer up a financial prize and you might get some surprising innovation. Yes, there might be some sensors that are needed that haven't been built yet - but just put the challenge out there with some rules/guidelines and see what happens.
4. I'm curious about the Web Downloads tab in the software. Are you planning on offering some expansion programming blocks for download soon?
5. This last one is just a big Thank You! I haven't had this much fun building and designing in years. I hope LEGO has a long, successful run with the NXT.
Jim Kelly
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Somthing that I thought would have been good in there, (just my opinion) some way for more memory.
although, it would be cool for a black NXT. And also, Spike and Alpharex are cool, but like you said, there needs to be others than those two.
All and all, nice letter
- Jul 26, 2006, 6:20:00 AM
- Guy Ziv said...
I know our forums are not OFFICIAL but we do have 50 registered users, and above 650 posts in our forums (not bad for 2 months, I'll say). We have MUCH more then "NXT RULEZ!" in our discussion topics - take a look sometimes.
We also started a new repository to hold files/projects contriuted from the community. In my personal opinion, in the open-source days we're living in - non-offical sites are better place to look for stuff then offical ones.
- Jul 26, 2006, 6:43:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Hey, Guy.
I check in on your forums frequently... and they're good. My letter wasn't meant to imply your forum isn't a good one.
There are many reasons I would like to see an official forum, including the ability to contact LEGO directly via a forum environment. It would also be one of the first places someone would look for news releases, alerts, and such...
I posted about your Repository today... and I think it's a great idea. You'll have some good success with it, I'm sure. But LEGO will still control many of the things that I and others will be involved in, namely FLL compliance of parts, programs, code, etc...
- Jul 26, 2006, 6:47:00 AM
About the competition - lego has one in the lego magazine! You build a NXT robot to do your bidding, and three winners recieve a lego set of their choice worth up to $100.00, plus their bot gets featured in the Nov. edition of the magazine.
P.S. I'm entering of course. :-) I'm working on an arm-accesory - something you wear on your arm that has different features (e.g. can opener, container, fan, light, object finder, etc.)
- Jul 26, 2006, 10:03:00 AM
Seems like a lot of nice ideas there. But before they do all that, how about they fix the "clicking brick" problem first! Any ideas when we shall see something and I can use this thing?
- Jul 26, 2006, 10:05:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I'll check on it, Mike... thanks for the reminder.
- Jul 26, 2006, 11:21:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I contacted LEGO - what you need to do is contact LEGO support directly - they can get the beta driver to you, but you need to contact them.
- Jul 26, 2006, 10:57:00 PM
Will do, thanks
- Jul 27, 2006, 8:43:00 AM
- Rachel Delorme said...
Guy, nxtasy.org's forums are just ONE month old.
- Jul 30, 2006, 12:06:00 AM
Yess! Black NXT! I would love to have color choice when it comes to that. I agree with everything on your list.
Bluetooth VC
Vision command had some awsome stuff done with it (if you havn't already, go check out J P Brown's Cube solver), but it was limited by the fact that it had to be connected to the computer. If there was a way to hook it directly with the NXT brick (USB) that couls solve the problem. But you still have 15' of cord hanging around...what do you do with it? Go wireless. I think that there would be awsome potention with a bluetooth enabled VC.
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Vyto Starinskas / Staff Photo The judge makes the physical DVD available of evidence in the case of 39-year-old Jennifer Berube, but would not allow the press to play it or video tape it when produced by the Rutland District court clerk Tuesday.A video that was the deciding factor in a judge's ruling to jail a woman without bail for an alleged murder attempt on a city police officer was shown in a Rutland courtroom Tuesday but its release was denied to the broader public through the actions of the presiding judge in the case.
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Just found this. Not sure if it runs on Windows Phone 7 too, but works like a charm on my Lumia 920. It's quite expensive, but after looking at the screenshots I decided to give it a shot.
One thing that bothers me though is that only 2 Siri-like commands are available at the moment. The meeting one, and the alarm one (which are by the way also accessible from outside the app), which renders it useless if you want to use it for tasks on your phone. That said, the general knowledge engine in it seems to work just great, and is worth the whole thing alone. I tried firing all kinds of insane scientific questions at it within the field of chemistry, physics, unit conversion and biology for school related work. This makes me suspect that it uses the same knowledge engine (Wolfram Alpha) as Siri does. You can talk to it apparently as well, as it responded to some of my general sentences or comments.
If you want to, I can add some screenshots of my queries so far.
As for speech recognition tech, I am not sure what technology is used. Might be the inbuilt Windows Phone 8 speech, or Google's speech API.
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The Wilson College 2013 field hockey team has begun their preseason training and preparation with hopes for yet another successful field hockey season. The Phoenix emerge out of a solid 12-7 overall record last season. The team faces a tough schedule this season as they contend against many highly competitive programs.
The 2013 roster comprises a sufficient number of upperclassmen who will offer much needed senior leadership as the team gets ready to confront their challenging schedule. Offensively, junior Hillary Swartz and senior Megan Schneck return to the team and look to continue their scoring contributions. Both Swartz and Schneck placed in the top five in goals last season tallying seven and six respectively. Seniors Victoria Whitbred and Katie Omori and juniors Kaitlyn Kuykendall, Nicole Melanson, and Chanteal Cobb add to the experienced upperclassmen presence in the midfield positions and will contribute both offensively and defensively to the team. Returning sophomore goalkeeper Gina Weigold will offer support to her team as the primary goalie for Wilson. Last season Weigold posted over 1,000 minutes in goal and tallied 76 saves for the Phoenix.
The team looks to continue their notable offensive numbers against their opponents in the 2013 season. Last season, the Phoenix outscored their opponents tallying 47 goals to the 32 goals scored against them. Wilson was also able to compile 302 shots against their opponents who totaled 215 shots.
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PAGE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Department of Public Safety says U.S. 89 is closed in both directions south of Page because of a pavement problem.
A large sinkhole has split the road 150 feet long and about three to four feet deep.
The DPS says that's because of what it describes as a ``pavement buckle.''
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She was born to Allen and Joyce (Harper) Trawick in Modesto. She lived her entire life in Riverbank. She was part of the first graduating class at Riverbank High School where she was a cheerleader. After high school she attended a vocational school to become a chiropractic assistant.
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The family that handles guns together, stays together. As proof, meet Mark and Nida Del Campo. They're a match made in heaven: He's been in the Marine Corps on active duty for 20 years, while she's an ex-Marine now in law enforcement. No surprise, then, that one of their favorite pastimes is hanging out at the shooting range, sharpening their aim. Not exactly the plot of a Harlequin romance, but it works for them.
They have another high-caliber hobby as well: a fully loaded '04 C5. Blacked out in a stealth-mode color scheme, this baby is armed for bear with a blown-and-built 402-cube mill that fires off 750 horses and 707 lb-ft at the rear wheels.
What led them to create such a high-velocity Vette? They already had some history with Corvettes before loading this bad boy into the breech.
"I first had a taste of the Corvette lifestyle when I purchased an '86 C4 back in 2002," Mark recalls. "It was a red coupe, and I enjoyed the times I was able to drive it. But I had more problems with that car than you can imagine, which led me to search for my first C5."
That led to buying a 30,000-mile '01 automatic (which the Campos still have) back in 2004. The '01 has Halltech's Stinger air intake, along with 1 3/4-inch American Racing headers and GHL Bullets out back, all installed by Andy Green at A&A Corvette Performance in Oxnard, California. That ride wasn't just for the street, either.
"We took the '01 out to Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond to participate in our very first road-racing event with Speedventures," he adds. "That was the most thrilling experience we've ever had with the Corvette." But the exhilaration of pulling the trigger on the track left them with a yearning for more.
Initially they considered a Z06. While checking around for a deal on one, "I got a message from Andy of A&A about this newer C5," Mark relates. "I mentioned to Nida that this would be even faster than a Z06, and that we should go and take a look at it."
Originally, the car had a 383 with a ProCharger D-1 head unit, 1 3/4-inch Stainless Works headers, and Borla stingers. But all was not right with the setup.
"Once I heard the car, I said, 'Something needs to change,'" Mark recalls. In other words, a lot more firepower was needed. Prior to picking up the Vette, he asked Green at A&A to swap the 383 for a 402 and add an AIS methanol injection. To keep up with the fueling demands of the bigger mill, Green also installed one of his fuel systems pumping through 75-pound injectors.


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- Vera Nova
- Las Vegas, NV
- United States
Director Research Analysis, NOVA Town Futuristic Development
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Is our human language the most intelligent tool to communicate? Do you trust your intuition more than the words?
I MEAN OUR LANGUAGE-OF-WORDS. Perhaps we spend immensely more time on talking than any animal.
Even while using multiple devices for communicating practically in any distance on earth for exchanging our feelings or information, we still do not understand one another any better than millennia ago.
As we see on TED most of the time we discuss or argue over our man-made TERMS, which we commonly use, but understand/interpret in different ways. We spend a lot of time arguing over the words themselves, over their meaning.
How much confusion we create by using language and its conventional terms?
Is our human language the most intelligent tool to communicate after all?
Closing Statement from Vera Nova
"Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world."
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
I'd like to thank you every member who has participated in this challenging conversation.
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Mar 25 2014: In face to face interactions, people and for that matter animals find meaning in both language and other cues, including those gathered by other senses as well as our histories with the person/animal at hand. An example might be the communication between mother and baby of any species without language or between man and dog. There are a variety of ways not involving language for dog to know what to expect from me or for me to know what to expect in the dog.
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How communication works best depends on the sorts of ideas we are trying to communicate and the context. Love is better conveyed without words, I think. How to knit is conveyed best by demonstration. Communication in person has great advantages, typically, over online communication.
I don't think "intelligent" is quite the right word for comparing one avenue of communication to another. I would associate intelligence more with gathering the available cues taken together and interpreting them meaningfully.Apr 13 2014: Yes I trust my intuitive view of the world more than I trust the literal one.
In interaction, sometimes I perceive that what is unsaid is more eloquent than the spoken or written word.
The subtle nuances of body language, voice inflection and facial expression are the languages of the subconscious, and is probably as near as it is possible to get to the personal and collective 'truths' we all possess - and to experience the 'truths' of others we encounter.
Words may be saying one thing but the body language and facial expressions may be saying something entirely different.
On the few occasions I have spoken in public, I do very badly indeed if I rehearse my lines over and over; I stumble over my words, look at my notes all the time, get confused, dart from one subject to another... Not good for people listening, and stressful for me. I sense no connection whatsoever with who I am speaking to. I also feel as though I am not being sincere.
Why is it that when I don't rehearse, I fare a lot better? I think it might be because I then use the intuitive language of the moment instead of the language I rehearsed beforehand ad nauseam. It means that I can connect with people without having to deal with lists and semantics. It is as near as I can get to accessing my own intuition on the subject I'm speaking about, while at the same time sensing the body language and expressions - and therefore the truthful reactions - of those listening. I seem to get genuinely interested in what others think, instead of disconnectedly getting through my rehearsed speech as quickly as possible.
What I'm trying to illustrate here, through self-observation, is the importance of the 'unsaid', the space between the lines, the profound silence - cannot be replicated in synthesis. It is uniquely human and underlines the importance of genuine human interaction. Therein lies intelligence of a far higher order, in my opinion.
Apr 14 2014: Well said Allan....as usual:>)
You ask..."why is it that when I don't rehearse, I fare a lot better"? It appears that you answered your question....if we're not engaged with the notes, we can genuinely connect with people....sensing body language, expressions, and genuine reactions of the people we are speaking to.
I never rehearsed when sharing my stories with classes or groups of people as a guest speaker, and although the content was usually much the same, the delivery usually changed, depending on what I felt from the audience. I too am very interested in what others think and feel about a topic, so when speaking to a class, I often invited them to ask questions and share their ideas about the topic whenever they felt like it.....most of the classes turned into discussions, which I love:>)
Vera Nova
Apr 18 2014: Colleen, I just copied and published your quote on the top of this thread. Is this OK?
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"I believe we can communicate with all kinds of creatures, and one of the first steps is to really listen with all our senses... "
Apr 18 2014: Yes, of course it's ok Vera....I am honored that you think a statement of mine is worth repeating.....thanks:>)
Sometimes, people mis-quote me, use a statement out of context, twist the statement to try to support their own agenda, etc., That is NOT ok with me, and it is not a very good reflection of the person doing that either. It tells us a LOT about them.....just thought I'd throw that in since we are talking about communication. That is NOT at all about you Vera, it is for some others in the audience:>)Apr 18 2014: Well, you just triggered another very important communication/language problem.
Throughout my life I've learned (while in schools, doing my work, writing) that if I wish to quote someone I am totally responsible for the exact wording. Improvising, twisting or "correcting" someone's words may easily twist the original meaning.
How often do we witness when peope are doing just that word-twisting? some, because they are sloppy and irrisponsible, and others have no respect to the original meaning and their true intention - these are crookes, manipulating someone's words the way they wish. Media, authors, legal and banking documents, courts, business and religious arguments, political "debates".. this list is endless.
This practicing is only demonstrating someone's pitifil poverty of education, and as the result - serious violation of elementary ethics.
Thank you for your comment, Colleen!
Apr 18 2014: I agree with you Vera....if I quote someone, it is my responsibility to quote accurately. If I do not agree with the quote, it is my responsibility to clarify my interpretation, as my own interpretation. It is NOT helpful to miss-interpret, as if it is the meaning to everyone. I agree..."twisting or "correcting" someone's words may easily twist the original meaning".....which is a misrepresentation of the original statement.
The list of people using this tactic may be endless Vera, and I believe anyone who adopts that behavior wants to justify and reinforce their own personal beliefs.Apr 18 2014: Colleen, as you manage to comment precisely from that level onwards which comes without 'Reply' function , I have to hop in here now, totally out of context, and as if that was any new to me ...;o)
Yes, I know this folk you mentioned all to good and TO ME they serve as good example that language as a tool of intelligent communication has its limitations by emotions, me included.
Nevertheless I don't know of any better form to communicate and if there is one, I haven't found it, or if I have, I haven't identified it yet.
Apr 18 2014: I do not perceive your comment as out of context Lejan.....the topic IS communication!
A "tool" of any kind, is only as effective as the one who wields the tool.....yes?Apr 19 2014: It certainly helps to train oneself in the usage of language as a tool for communication to increase the chance to transfer information as lossless as possible. Nevertheless, the quality of the result of this transfer, the efficiency of the tool language in this process, withdraws itself completely from any form of measurement on which the concept of 'effectiveness' itself is entirely based on.
Effectiveness is the ratio of desired to reached outcome. On languages, 100% would then be an identical carbon copy of a message given by one and received by another individual and this on all levels of interpretations, rationally as well as emotionally.
Unfortunately we have no way to determine to what degree a message remains as originally intended, as language has no neutral reference point to which all individuals could 'calibrate' themselves to, by which 'meaning' and also 'intentions' of words and sentences would align exactly in all of us.
There is a beautiful term I recently came across which is called 'fractal wrongness' and defined as follows:
'Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.'
(Rational Wiki)
Besides its quite amusing potential in 'rhetoric battles', the fractal component serves quite well on languages when we would substitute 'wrongness' by 'blurriness'.
By this, languages remain blurry at every conceivable scale of resolution by the fact, that each individual has its very own interpretations and associations to any possible word there is, and also different interpretations and associations in their combinations.
The simple word 'peanut' not only describes the seed of a certain tree, it also sparks a multitude of personal experiences within each of us on conscious and unconscious levels, ...
Apr 19 2014: I agree Lejan, that it is beneficial to learn language skills and different language styles in an effort to communicate more effectively.
I also agree that there is no sure way of determining to what degree a message remains as intended.
Regarding the idea of "fractal wrongness".........
I perceive that we can easily say the same about fractal rightness....zooming in on one part and perceiving it as right, and that part is just as right as the whole worldview.
I prefer not to label communications "right" or "wrong". In my perception, there are more beneficial ways to communicate, and when we can stop labeling communications "right" or "wrong", we may experience a balance.Apr 19 2014: ... which creates a multitude of individual echo-chambers attached to this word in which the 'neutral' naming of this seed will be interpreted differently, individually. A 'simple' allergy totally changes the value of this word for a person who has it.
As we are not aware of another persons 'echo-chambers' attached to each word and context, and never can be, we always have this blurriness within a conversation by which we can never be certain to which level the exchange of information resonates in what was said. And regardless of how close we would 'zoom in' on individual words, the blurriness would remain as that of the whole conversation.
And on top of this, those personal 'echo chambers' are not static and change over time with experiences.
As a funny and simple example may serve the last-name of a horrible teacher some of us probably had or still have during our years at school. Although the name itself is 'neutral' in its very nature, we have a whole emotional world attached to it. And as more uncommon this name is, as longer it usually takes to 'overwrite' our attachments to this name, which usually happens when we meet other people having the same last-name yet allows us to have more pleasurable experiences with them and therefore their names, which in themselves are only words... :o)Apr 19 2014: Hello Dear Colleen. Just want to let you know that Carl Dalton posted a comment for you, it's placed way below.. Here is the link to Carl's recent post
I understand that it is hard to reply to your posts because almost all of them are just your Replies to other's comments - our replies have no direct "reply" links. ( Ted system does not let us reply to someone's reply directly..only our comments to the Topic have "reply" links )
Happy Holidays :)
Apr 19 2014: I saw it and responded Vera....thanks.
If a comment has no direct "reply" option, you can scroll up to the next "reply" option.Apr 19 2014: 'I prefer not to label communications "right" or "wrong". In my perception, there are more beneficial ways to communicate, and when we can stop labeling communications "right" or "wrong", we may experience a balance.'
Tolerance, by what I think you are referring to by the 'balance' has quite distinct limitations to me, in conversations as well as in whole world views.
Otherwise I had to tolerate racism, slavery, murder, genocide, etc., which I don't and therefore do label all of those fundamentally 'wrong' according to alternative and humane values I happen to have acquired over my years.
Apr 19 2014: I thought we were talking about communications Lejan....
"Is our human language the most intelligent tool to communicate? Do you trust your intuition more than the words?"
I do not agree that seeking balance has limitations. For me, seeking balance with communications, means to genuinely pay attention and communicate with respect.
I didn't say anything about tolerating racism, slavery, murder, genocide, etc.
"the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with."
Balance: .
"a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions."
Lejan .
Apr 19 2014: Isn't the purpose of communication to exchange information? And is there a way to us to receive and process this information without translating it into our own 'resonance frequencies'?
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As I was trying to point out before, I don't see any way for us to NOT to label the elements of a language in itself, in its context and by the informational content it carries and what me 'make' out of it.
Its labeled all way through, by our nature, which is what makes for the blurriness.
I don't see how communication could be freed off its content as well as of the way it gets perceived and processed.
The purpose of language is to bridge the 'air gap' in between entirely independent nervous-systems, yet neither the given information, nor the received information can be protected against labeling and re-labeling, which was the point I was trying to make.
So when a raciest exchanges minds with another one, it is likely that both have more 'rights' in common about that particular conversation than if one of them was not a raciest.
I don't share your view, that seeking balance within communications has no limitations, as this could lead to highly absurd situations.
I do agree that any conversation should start with respect and impartiality, yet I disagree that respect is an unchangeable constant within it. How could I possibly give my respect to someone who just shared his/her most disturbing and solemnly sick murder fantasies with me?
Respect is a highly labeled attitude we grant towards others in advance and in benefit of the doubt. From there it is either taken away by us or constantly earned for us to be able to maintain it.
And no, you didn't say 'anything about tolerating racism, slavery, murder, genocide, etc.', yet how much respect would you be able to lend to a dialogue partner who would insist on those ideas to be desirable and if this was the informational essence of that communication?
Apr 19 2014: Lejan,
I am not in any way suggesting that communication "be freed off its content as well as of the way it gets perceived and processed."
The point I am trying to make, is that if we let go of the labels ("right" and "wrong" in relation to communications), the mind and heart may be more open to give and receive information.
I am suggesting "respect" for the process of communication. That does not mean we "respect" the behavior that is being communicated.....does that make any sense?
For example:
When I was mediating with convicted felons, I did not show respect, tolerance or acceptance for some of their behaviors as expressed. I DID however, respect the process of the conversation/communication.
Within a conversation/communication, respect for the process of communication CAN be a constant. Respecting the PROCESS and the exchange of information does NOT mean we always AGREE.
It doesn't matter to me if you agree with my ideas or not...I am not attached to your thoughts, feelings, ideas, perceptions, perspectives, opinions or beliefs.....whatever they may be. I still respect the process of the communication:>)
The topic question....
"Is our human language the most intelligent tool to communicate?"
In my humble perception and experience, it depends on how we use the tool:>)Apr 19 2014: 'I am suggesting "respect" for the process of communication. That does not mean we "respect" the behavior that is being communicated.....does that make any sense?'
I am trying to find sense in it and what would be left as motivation to engage such a process of communication, in which the respect about its content would fail to sustain or to be maintained or to re-grow.
At those extremes we are talking about here, I think each side could only continue the communication in hope to finally change something within the other side, regardless how small such an impact would be, as long as it does impact. In one day, one week, one Year?
If this my assumption was true, and hope for change the only motivation, than again the purpose of the process of communication was to transfer and to install ones own 'value system' into the 'value system' of another.
If I was free of any intention within such a communication and given enough more pleasurable alternatives to communicate, why should I continue a conversation with a person who for whatever reason has lost all of my respect towards them? Without this 'hope' I mentioned before, there was no point for me to do so at all.
I can't imagine the process of communication to exist without intention and purpose, because to remain silent comes always optional with it.
Have you never come across a person to which nothing has been left in motivation to exchange minds about?
Apr 20 2014: Lejan,
You write...."...what would be left as motivation to engage such a process of communication, in which the respect about its content would fail to sustain or to be maintained or to re-grow."
For me personally, the important part of communication is to understand and connect with people, and that is my underlying intent. It is possible to agree to disagree, and still have good communication.
Unfortunately (in my perception), communications are often about trying to convince another person that one is "right" and one is "wrong"...which happens a lot here on TED. People sometimes are so attached to their own personal thoughts, feelings and beliefs, they sometimes fail to genuinely connect with others. If one identifies him/herself with beliefs that s/he thinks are "right", it is very difficult to let go of those beliefs for even a second, to ponder the idea that there may be different perceptions/perspectives.
An example again of the guys I interacted with who were incarcerated...
I could label them bad... criminals who did things that were "wrong", and I could assume there was nothing to connect with.
However, they are people....they were little children at one time...they have families...mothers...fathers...brothers...sisters...wives...children...just like me in that respect. They have feelings...life challenges....just like me, so that is where I try to connect. That is what is left when there is disagreement with the topic. I did not agree with their behavior, and I connected with the similarities that we share.
The only thing I can change, is myself and my intent with communications. My intent is to connect, and one generally cannot connect when "stuck" with his/her belief as the one and only "right" belief. The more one tries to change the beliefs of others, the further and further the communication gets from the possibility to connect. That is not my preference.Apr 25 2014: IMO
Lejan, I agree with you.
Respect is a side issue relating to ones personal feelings, in regard to an ongoing conversation, and the only thing that matters in regard to those feelings, is that they are not allowed to influence the context or content of the conversation (And I am at times as guilty of this as any other).
The question is; am I gaining something that is worthwhile from this conversation, and if that is the case, then its worth continuing the conversation.
E.g. I a recent conversation the person was abusive etc, and would not let up and kept on attacking; to the point that I finally lashed back: However I could have left the conversation earlier, and simply rolled over and left it where it was; but every time he came back with another new point, so this gave me the opportunity to answer a point, that someone else following the conversation, might also have made, if they were involved in the conversation.
Therefore although he might have thought he was doing both the conversation and myself a great disservice, and although he was annoying the hell out of me; he was in fact aiding and abetting me, in getting points across that otherwise I would not have made.Apr 19 2014: And I am not suggesting that discipline in conversations is not worth trying, yet for its own sake?
Apr 20 2014: In my perception Lejan, one CAN practice communication skills for its own sake....sure!
One thing that helps me, is to let go of any expectation regarding an outcome.
In your previous comment, you ask...
"why should I continue a conversation with a person who for whatever reason has lost all of my respect towards them? Without this 'hope' I mentioned before, there was no point for me to do so at all."
We can do whatever we choose....continue, or quit the conversation. You have been accused of "spoiling" a person's conversation, and yet he keeps coming back for more.....wonder why? Perhaps there is a possibility for you guys to connect somehow? I am speculating of course, and with reading all of your interactions, my intuition tells me there is a reason for the communications.....just a thought that may be the intent and purpose?
Yes, I have come across people who simply want to argue and be "right". If a person is consistently disrespectful, I generally leave the conversation....there are choices in any communication.....like you insightfully say...."to remain silent comes always optional with it."
We always have choices regarding why, when, how and with whom we communicate:>)Apr 20 2014: 'In my perception Lejan, one CAN practice communication skills for its own sake....sure!'
Maybe this is why I horrible and repeatedly fail in small-talk situations in which many words are spend and nothing said? Maybe this is why I spoil any diplomacy game, in which lots is suggested yet never openly named?
'One thing that helps me, is to let go of any expectation regarding an outcome.'
Absolutely, yet I was referring to conversations in which the outcome already was to have lost any respect in the 'world view' of another individual, and what would be left as motivation from there to continue to communicate.
Why the reduction on 'similarities' would be a strong enough motivator from this point onwards to continue and not to just politely fade out of the conversation remains unclear to me.
If it was 'just' similarities, why would you seek for this in 'fringe groups' of society, as there are plenty of alternatives all around you. So I assume, that your main motivation in getting in touch with criminals was curiosity? Or compassion? Did you not expect them to be ordinary people as well before you met?
What sparked you interest to choose for significantly more effort for those communications over the plenitude of more easy alternatives? To talk about 'similarities'? Hmmm, this certainly wouldn't be a strong enough motivator to do the same as you did and therefore it is difficult to me to not suspect for other motivations within you to walk that 'extra mile' for 'just' that.
Maybe this my difficulty in understanding your motivations is rooted in our differences in what both of us consider 'to care' for another individual, about which some time ago we remained in disagreement about it.
'Unfortunately (in my perception), communications are often about trying to convince another person that one is "right" and one is "wrong"...which happens a lot here on TED.'
And also it sometimes feels 'unfortunate' to me at times what you describe, I think its part of our nature.
Apr 20 2014: Lejan,
My motivation for volunteering with the dept. of corrections for 6 years, is because of my underlying life philosophy that if I am not part of the solution, I am part of the problem.
After living with a violent, abusive father for part of my life, I learned a little about abuse and violence, domination and control. As an adult, I volunteered in a women/children's shelter where I learned more, and hopefully contributed a little to the learning of the victims of violence and abuse.
One thing I learned at the shelter, is that we can educate women and children to a certain extent, and the men who dominate and control with violence and abuse continue. So after a couple years volunteering in the shelter, I volunteered with the dept. of corrections facilitating "cognitive self change" sessions and various other programs. The dept. of corrections provided education in mediation, where I learned more ways to communicate the messages we were attempting to convey to the offenders....thereby learning different ways to communicate in various life experiences.Apr 20 2014: Lejan,
Regarding your insightful observation of "situations in which many words are spend and nothing said"....
I learned many years ago in writing classes to speak and write clearly and simply, while staying focused on the topic. The mediation instruction I participated in reinforced this idea.
I totally agree with you that there are times when lots of words are used, and not very much is said.....or.....people get off on tangents that have nothing to do with the topic.
Sometimes, when I write comments for TED, I write my thoughts and feelings, and if I reach the character limit, I go back and remove all the words that are not really necessary, which is what we were asked to do in the writing classes. We end up with the same message, often more clear, understandable, and focused.
I'm not saying this is right/wrong/good/bad/better/worse/etc.
I'm simply saying this is my practice, that is how I learned it, and in my perception, it helps me use the language "tool" in a more productive way:>)Apr 20 2014: Yet aren't '... ways to communicate the messages we were attempting to convey to the offenders' just another form of 'convincing'?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with those programs, and I am not questioning them nor their intentions, yet from an analytical standpoint of conversations, 'cognitive self change' is high art in convincing, isn't it?
I was lucky that I have never experienced abuse when I was a child, yet I learned that many who have can form a lifelong 'tendency' towards it, in destructive ways, by keep ending up in abusive relationships as adults, or in constructive ways by direct confrontation with the offending side, either as professional specialists, or as supporting volunteers in rehabilitation programs you describe.
Could it be, that the motivation of the latter is a way to find answers, understanding and maybe also forgiving on conscious and also unconscious levels, for them to individually deal with their past?
Apr 20 2014: Conveying a message, in my perception Lejan, is sharing information....not trying to convince anyone of anything.
Cognitive self change is exactly that....."self change".....people have choices.
Yes...absolutely....supporting and facilitating programs is another opportunity to learn and understand on many different levels. To help support and encourage others in what might be a similar journey, contributes to healing for all parties.....good point:>)Apr 20 2014: re: 'many words spend, nothing said'
End of message.
Apr 20 2014: Lejan,
You don't have to shorten your messages THAT much!!! LOL:>)
One more thought......
As a wee little lass, when my father was ranting and raging, I used to think.....why doesn't he just sit down and talk? Apparently, there was already a communication seed planted!!!Apr 20 2014: But ...
Maybe it is because I am me, or because I am a man about which the rumor goes, there is a superior gender regarding communication skills, yet I only get into details about another persons life when this person interests me. Without this condition, I simply don't. :o)
Apr 20 2014: I am honored:>)Apr 20 2014: 'Conveying a message, in my perception Lejan, is sharing information....not trying to convince anyone of anything.'
On this I disagree in the given context.
And although the therapeutic goal is named 'self change', its intention is 'to change', so whatever information is shared in this framework serves this very purpose and therefore partakes in an convincing process.
Any society defines which form of violence it does not tolerate and which one it nurtures and only towards this definition individual actions are either rewarded or punished.
'Cognitive self change is exactly that....."self change".....people have choices.'
And so has the dog in an Pavlov's experiment. That statistically those choices tend towards a preferred reaction may also indicate that there are not many other alternatives?
So if we arrange a situation in which only messages of similar content are conveyed, how much 'self' can we actually expect in behavioral 'change' if it finally occurs.
If we take a look on the other side of the scale were societies domesticate violence for their services, this very 'self' is also targeted in an highly single sided environment, just with opposite 'polarization'.
Again, don't get me wrong, as I am not calling for anarchy here, yet I don't see any way to convey any message without intention in any form of behavioral programming.
And weather we convince by 'self reflective processes in single sided information environments, or by 'boot camp' methods is only matter of style, not of intention.
Apr 21 2014: Lejan,
You write..."And so has the dog in an Pavlov's experiment. That statistically those choices tend towards a preferred reaction may also indicate that there are not many other alternatives?"
Yes, there may be a "preferred reaction", and that action/reaction is a choice that one can make for him/herself.....or not. The "cognitive self change" sessions were a choice for incarcerated people. To choose to attend, they already made a choice that they wanted to do something different than a life of crime. We offered some ideas regarding how they could make different choices. I had no expectations at all Lejan. We (co-facilitators) offered some ideas, and those who wanted to embrace the ideas did so.....those who chose not to accept and use the ideas did what they chose. I was not/am not attached to the outcome.
Nor am I attached to the outcome of this conversation. You have your ideas, understanding, and intent, I have my ideas, understanding and intent. I can keep explaining the principles of "cognitive self change", and you can continue arguing with your own perception....so be it. The concept is simply another "tool" in the toolbox of life, which can be effectively communicated and used......or not:>)Apr 21 2014: So be it in our disagreement.Apr 18 2014: yes well said
Carl Karasti
Apr 6 2014: Our human language - languages, plural, actually - are just one tool we use for communication. Whether or not languages are utilized intelligently is an open question.
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We use words to try to express ourselves, to express something about our experience of life, to in some way try to share our life experiences with others. As such, the words are not our experiences, they are simply pointers towards what we have experienced.
On the receiving side, listeners/readers focus on the words, phrases, sentences, and they try to dissect them to discern what they might mean. But this is done from the perspective of the life experiences of the listener/reader, which may or may not have much overlap with the life experiences of the speaker/writer. Words have denotative meaning - and often multiple meanings - that we can look up in a dictionary. They also have connotative meanings that we, as individuals or groups, might connect with them but that aren't widely shared.
But the real meanings of the words and phrases we use are beyond even those denotative and connotative meanings. The real meanings are inside us, as acquired from and associated with our personal life experiences.
That means that your understanding of what I write/say depends upon how much if any overlap there is between our life experiences, and upon how much and what kind of awareness you have of your life experiences that relate to my life experiences. So, to understand me, you need to look not at my words, but beyond them and deep within yourself to try to discern what we might share in common. This doesn't mean we need identical life experiences, because that's not possible, but we need sufficiently similar experiences so we can find some shared understanding and meaning. Otherwise, our word-based communication will be fraught with difficulty.
Parsing words and phrases and arguing about their meanings is meaningless if we want to achieve real communication. Real communication happens beyond our words.
Apr 6 2014: Thank you for your very observing comment, Carl. I agree with you practically on everything you've said,
"translating" your words into my own understanding.
Our human languages, unlike animal or plants direct and highly informative communications, offer only dry symbols. We then have to emotionally revive, and imaginatively animate them before we truly feel what they might mean for us.
Even if we speak the same language each word might be interpreted variously, unless we explain our specific situation when and how our word shall be understood within our specific meaning. This makes us very talkative.
If I just say "run" - people will run in all directions and some of the directions may turn to be deadly. ( It happens to us, humans, since we have invented our symbolic languages, provoking endless arguments and anger. )
I think that all our human languages need serious improvements..
Carl Karasti
Apr 6 2014: Thanks for your interesting paraphrasing of my comment, Vera. But you seem to be very focused on "human languages" and words, and you seem to have not quite grasped my main point - although your comment about imaginatively animating our dry symbols to feel what they might mean comes close. Unfortunately, I think fanciful imagination usually tends to take over, which results in the creative overlaying of imposed meaning rather than the revelation of intended meaning.
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I think we need to learn how to communicate more intelligently, which includes looking beyond the words, beyond whatever "language" we use, and into ourselves in order to discern what the speaker/writer intended to communicate, rather than parsing the words and phrases and laying our own interpretation on top of them. Looking into ourselves, into our own experience, to find where we might have overlap with the other person provides us with the only possibility we have of "getting inside" the other person so we can better understand them. And not just inside their head, but inside their experience of life. And this might involve some contemplation time and probing questions rather than the rapid responses exemplified by quick, witty "gottcha" comebacks so typical of many exchanges these days.
Improvements in languages might provide better "pointers" but even the "pointers" we currently have aren't used with intelligence and wisdom, so further improvements, whatever they might be, wouldn't really provide any great benefit. If we simply feel what the words of another mean for us, personally, regardless the language, that won't necessarily reveal to us what the other person was feeling when choosing and using those words. So, I'm talking about a whole different, deeper level of listening/reading.Apr 9 2014: I'm finally getting back to this conversation to comment on intuition.
Yes, our intuition is a very powerful way to know and understand, but it is not a way to communicate something TO another person. I can tell you what I am thinking, and I can tell you about my feelings and actions, by using words. I can't tell you anything by using my intuition, especially through typed words that appear on our screens, but even when I'm face-to-face with someone.
On the other hand, you can use your intuition to try to discern what I'm trying to communicate, and this constitutes a looking-beyond-the-words in order to try to avoid becoming caught up in parsing the words and missing the intended meaning. And I, of course, can try to do the same thing while reading your words or listening to someone speak.
And there is, of course, much more to in-person verbal communication than there is to written communication. Written words are missing characteristics such as rhythm, intonation, speed, volume, intensity, weight, vibration, all of which are present in spoken words. There is also the whole aspect of body language and Presence. Presence includes body language and more that people are not necessarily consciously aware of but which still influence communication, such as magnetism and other energetic phenomena.
So, I trust in my intuition to help make meaning more clear as I communicate with someone, and I hope that the other person is also able to intuitively understand me, yet we typically need to use words for at least part of our communication. And, if we use our language-based communication intelligently, we should be able to look beyond the limitations of language to see and hear and respond intelligently, wisely and compassionately.Apr 10 2014: I believe that in order to understand what others try to say I must play every word as a character, image, event - in my mind.
I mean, when we use language, talking, writing or reading, there is No direct instant communication with others, compared to when we exchange our sensations intuitively as any animals do.
Therefore, our language requires time for this mental word-processing, based on our personal mental abilities to interpret received signals or pronounced words, also develop visible images, watch behaviors and other segments of the scenario which we try to understand and describe.
Our language is the most slow process of any types of communication.
Apr 10 2014: How do we "exchange our sensations intuitively?"
Specifically, how do we SEND a sensation to another intuitively? I ask because SENDING is just as important an aspect of communication as is receiving.
As I understand intuition it is, as I've mentioned, a capacity we have for receiving and processing, so for input rather than output.
Yes, word language communication does take time, often a lot of time. That's because it is a method of the intellectual/thinking center (mental abilities) which, as I've mentioned elsewhere, our slowest center or way of operating.
Vera Nova
Apr 14 2014: "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
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― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected WorksApr 25 2014: If not, and if the Internet despite its drawbacks, is not the means of internationally causing humanity to realize, that despite color, race, religions, politics etc. we humanity are all one; of all the kindred kinds of our common biosphere; and we all have to cooperate to save it.
Then the world will not end, but rather continue its evolutionary role, returning the Earth back to its former natural balance; and in the process the mythical flood of Noah; will be as nothing, compared to what has long been compounding, and accelerating in progress; and the insatiable greed of the capitalists and dictators, will have brought down upon all of us.
Apr 25 2014: As the global human population grows the average human being becomes older and wiser. We have the internet to acquire knowledge from now and more and more of that knowledge will originate from the old and wise.Apr 20 2014: Yes if you consider a living tree which is so callously chopped down; that tree is a home to the birds and flying and crawling insects and creatures such as bats and squirrels etc; but it is as a whole universe to all the infinitesimal bugs and mites and bacteria and viruses etc: And equally our bodies are the homes, and the whole universe relative of mega trillions of bacteria that infest our skin, hair, and gastrointestinal tract etc etc.
And what people do not realize is that just as we say the eyes are the windows of the soul, so at any time when we think we are alone; all of the senses of those trillions of infinitesimal creatures, are as observation windows of/to the universal intelligence.Apr 18 2014: What do you think regarding our sense of morality that gets so lost in the wording/interpretations?
As scholars understand, Charles Darwin defends a naturalist approach to morality. It is my great interest in this Conversation/discussion. In The Descent of Man, he argues that moral behavior has outgrown from animal tendency for empathy through evolution of morality.
By comparing human and animal behavior through a naturalist approach, he concludes that moral sense is based on the species' sociability, notably altruism.
I think that if we ever try to learn from the best of the animal world, from its hidden from us interconnections and endless meanings of these interactions, our tool, as human language, would still be our main tool to communicate among ourselves. In any case it needs to be examined and re-examined over and over again, including its basic flaws..
Learning basic ethics will help us get rid of lots of pretentiousness, tricks, stupidity and abuses of all sorts, so we would be able to spend more of our energy on sound creativity and true discoveries about ourselves and nature which our only ultimate school that we never graduate.
Apr 25 2014: Hi Vera
Qt: As scholars understand, Charles Darwin defends a naturalist approach to morality. It is my great interest in this Conversation/discussion. In The Descent of Man, he argues that moral behavior has outgrown from animal tendency for empathy through evolution of morality.
By comparing human and animal behavior through a naturalist approach, he concludes that moral sense is based on the species' sociability, notably altruism.
I would agree with Darwin that moral behaviour did evolve through the animal kingdom, but also from the first living cell, up to the level of the animal kingdom. However the Descent of Man began, with the insatiable greed of ancient power hungry leaders/invaders/conquerors/dictators/monarchs; and more so with the later advent of Roman fascistic capitalism, which has evolved over time via the means of very many channels/paths/deceits - politics/networks/ "corporations" = multiple "cooperation's".
To become an almost universal philosophy, of self-vested interests, and insatiable materialistic greed, that continues on the same basis of said self-vested interests, stirring up wars as a means of excusing their invasion's.
And in so doing, they continue their philosophy of privateering/pirating/taxing/coercing/under-rewarding, the energies/work/production of the common people; and thus with the power of the riches of their ill-gotten gains, gained by the power of their money and share markets, and the despicable lies of their quisling politicians, who while claiming to be, and paid by the public to serve and be right honourable public servants; instead serve their corporate masters in controlling, and selling off all of the common peoples funded assets/utilities, and all the common peoples common wealth, in the form of oil/minerals/forestry/agriculture.
And in the vast darkness of this descent of man, I wonder if the Light of Universal Democracy/Cooperation stands a chance?
Apr 25 2014: Not even a slightest doubt - there is no creature on earth that can torment and murder any livng being for just some psychotic IDEA, and moreover, enjoy every minute of the "process".
First of all, if we want to survive as somewhat intelligent/intuitive creatures we must learn how to experience nature's reality - not our fantasies which are often sickly. Secondary-- I have no hope that this is going to happen - not in my life. I just admire rare individuals who are learning and care..Bless you.Apr 17 2014: I know, but the rounds we have to make in our thought processes, and multi dimensional mind imaging etc, are far far more arduous, and torturous; and putting them into simple words of explanation is almost, if not at other times impossible.
Apr 16 2014: The annoyingly long shots where the actors attempt to convey meaning via intense gazes in the twilight movies series provide four strong cases against the value of non-verbal communication over verbal communication in all given situations and especially in relationships.
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Apr 18 2014: Thats acting = interpretation not reality.
Apr 18 2014: Damn I thought it was real
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Apr 18 2014: MR T,
I believe it IS real, and the one communicating has intent and interpretation, just as the one who listens and watches has intent and interpretation.
No one knows for sure what is going on in the mind and heart of another person.....whether s/he is acting....or not. That is why it helps to pay attention to ALL parts of a communication....including words, intonation, facial expressions, eye contact and all other body language, and in the case of an on-line conversation.....how something is written and expressed. I believe there is value in non-verbal communication, and it is part of the whole experience of communication.
Sometimes, if a person tries to tell us what is real and what is not real for us, s/he is projecting his/her personal interpretation, which may not be the same as our personal interpretation.Apr 18 2014: P.S.
I was a professional actor for part of my life experience MR T, and I can tell you that when I was expressing something as a character on stage, it was very real for me in that moment, because I connected with the emotions in my self, which connected with the character to be able to genuinely feel what the character might be experiencing. That is how actors connect with the character to produce a good performance:>)
We can also say that we "walk in another person's shoes"....feel compassion and empathy.Apr 18 2014: Hi Mr T
Did cover the subject/history of body language recognition in my reply to Carl Karasti in my post of 9th of April, if your interested.Apr 14 2014: "No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth."
― John F. KennedyApr 14 2014: Cant say full power, but powerful enough to transmit joy; thing is about intuition it is very broad and varied and puzzling, and I am sure/certain that the amount of what is being received, from our subconscious, is far greater, than our conscious mind is able to recognize; and yet is influenced by it.
Apr 14 2014: I'd say that we actually cannot communicate with any other living forms, not even one another, without this subconscious exchage of sensations and emotions. This is, I think the most basic way of commuunication among living beings. Our man-made language is then a second-hand, over processed type of exchange.
Apr 14 2014: Absolutely agree
What people do not realize is that in order for any decision to be made, there has to be a debating/deciding phase before any action can be taken; and this applies equally in regard to ourselves, which is why "intuitively" we often say we are of two minds about something.
Interesting also it used to be said the first sign of madness was talking to yourself, and the second was looking for hairs growing on the palms of your hands. However it has since been discovered that talking to yourself adds the element of auditory input which reinforces memory.
I think it might have been George Bernard Shaw who said ( Yes I do talk to myself because I like to hear an intelligent person speak, and when an intelligent person speaks, I listen.
Apr 14 2014: Super. The subject is amazing and very amusing..Apr 13 2014: You received my "Interpretation/Translation" of what I am sensing every time I hear the dawn chorus, and if it is not an ode to joy, as well as all the birds checking out where all the others, are and, checking it out against the map in their head of where all the others of their flock and neighbour's should be; why does it always transmit a sense of joy, and so stir my soul.
Thats a rhetorical question
Apr 14 2014: Intuitive communication in full power?
Jacob Warren
Apr 13 2014: It seems to me that human language, in whatever form it takes, is the most developed language and has the highest potential for communicating ideas. This doesn't mean that everyone that uses it, uses it intelligently. Though there is no arguing there is a lot of time and effort spent here at Ted arguing semantics, I would have to disagree that we do not understand each other any better than a millennia ago. Maybe its just in my head (or my dreams), butitseems like the lines of division between us are dissolving. Nationalism is being seen by more and more people as a tool of manipulation and oppression, racism is being acknowledged as the ignorance it truly is, it seems that we are recognizing our commonalities more every day.
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Apr 13 2014: Jacob: Maybe you did not mean to do this but you just challanged me to somehow explain why so many of us think that we understand one another better than we did ages ago. But some of us do discover how differently we understand the same established standard words and concepts.
Since prehistoric time we have come up with so many conventions thinking that we can perfectly imprint them "unchanged" against the law of nature: universal change is instantly transformoing our bodies, minds and memories.
We're able to see how differently we use those conventional terms and ideas ONLY when discover how very differently we react on them.
A million-men marching demostration may manifest a single slogan, but if we could see how it works in every single mind of that crowd we would be shocked. All movements and systems are doomed to fall apart, sooner or later, when members discover how differently they treat the "same" idea.
Some of the powerful Hitler's ideological followers were devastated when eventually reconed that the dictator did not really meant what they, themselves, meant interpreting the same beautiful ideas about freedom and inspiration (lots of ideas were borrowed from great Friedrich Nietzsche, including "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude".)
Another example is about how Justin Drew Bieber, a Canadian pop performer, confused the word "detrimental" with some other word, but used it over and over again without any clue what it basically means. Millions of young followers have "learned" from him.
First we build something, and establish our concepts believing that they can serve a group or even "the whole world". When we then get into arguments and fights (war) we try to examin those ideas -- but only Backwards!
Instead of revealing the nature's law -uniqueness of our perceptions of realities- we are blaming one another for interpreting concepts and terms wrongly - for millennia.
Ted is a great example.
Apr 13 2014: But despite the shortcomings of language, specifically the different interpretations and understandings that gives rise to semantics(1.the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, includingformal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.), surely we can see through these barriers inherent in language, or intuit the truth behind language, that we are more similar than different. Looking only at the last 4 or 5 generations, we can see that humankind as a whole is perceiving the falseness of ideas like other races being less human, or the generalisations that come with nationalism. An individual's limited understanding of the depth of meaning and uses of any word, relative to its context, doesn't negate the power of language to communicate thoughts, emotions, ideas, and intuitions. I forget where I heard/read it, but I always liked the idea that words are simply used to construct a "cup" that holds the meaning or idea that is being communicated. Intuition may be more useful internally, but without language of some form, how do we express ourselves to others or allow them to express themselves to us, allowing us to grow? By the way, didn't mean to challenge you personally, nothing I said was meant as an attack.
Apr 13 2014: Good questions. I do not mean that we shall stop using our language beacuse it is ultimately confusing in many cases. I dream that we may improve it by admiting that it is not at all uniformed for all. We may learn again from wilderness how important to practice all sorts of exchage beyond those symbolic words.
Not the words themselves are so important, but the way we use them, missuse them or confuse them.Apr 18 2014: Yes indeed Jacob I believe you are right
And as I believe/know there is a reason for/behind everything, I think the internet though digital and robotic in its current form, is a natural part of our and our planets evolutionary process of increasing interactive and better communication, between us all, on an inter-netting /international scale.
And although I am not going to strike off on this tangent; it is interesting when you look at the evolutionary process and ask a question such as why did the Dinosaurs exist for 600 million years, then suddenly they were wiped out.
Well if you consider that in order to produce the riches of minerals and arable soils and lands of today, what was needed was not just weather and oceanic erosion, but also ruddy great bulldozers to pulverize the trees, and grind the rocks in their bellies etc, and produce masses of nutrient/mineral rich fecal matter, and finally their huge bodies to compost and feed the ground; imo there is always a reason behind everything despite the fact we just cant see it .
Lejan .
Apr 12 2014: It seems that some birds, especially in the morning hours when many of us are still a bit more on the quiet site, are as talkative and communicative as we are... well, after our first coffee, of course ...
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I often wonder what happened to them over night, which makes it that urgent to share it the very moment they get up ... I have no idea ... :o)
For us I don't know and can't even imagine of any other, any better and more precise way to share information than by our language and this despite its imperfections and risks of misunderstandings.
Confusion in the process is immanent and inevitable as we have no universally valid reference point to which all of us could calibrate against to synchronize meaning, intention, understanding and interpretation. Yet we have the choice to compensate for this to certain degrees, depending on how much time, patience, reflections and goodwill we are willing to spend into the communication with another being.
Imagine we would have a technology to totally tap into the neural network of another individual with ours for direct communication to mutually partake in each others intellectual and emotional 'echo-chambers' to reduce the 'noise' and disturbances of the old fashioned externalization of spoken words.
Would you use it?
I think I wouldn't although I have to admit, that it would be tempting in certain situations.
So lets continue our ongoing journey of communicative chaos and let us spent our times on words which seems to matter to us in whatever context, way and situation. Not any misunderstanding is necessary to be eradicated ... at times, on the contrary.
Anything left unclear? Let me know!
Apr 13 2014: You have some very challenging questions, Lejan, and I like them!
I trust that our language is not at all our inborn ability.
If a human baby is growing up among caring wolfs he will mimic their behavior and even sounds. Moreover, he will identify himself as a wolf. Unlike us, humans, No other creature would confuse its own kind with other kind, it "knows" who it is, what to eat and how to fly or run.
I think, however, only humans can mimic other kinds so well, acting, sensing and feeling as those kinds. This fantastic inborn ability we, humans, possess is revealing our outstanding but primordial acting/artistic character. When we grow up we are trained to mimic made-up human language and, years later, feel that there is no other way for us to express ourselves.
As I have mentioned in some of my posts, we still have this superb intuition while we are still very young babies, unaware, we replace intuition by conventions, including language without which we would not be accepted in our artificial human society.
We learn backwards - first do our best to get rid of what is granted to us by nature and then are trying to put things under microscopes to dissect the nature's gift and "examine" what appears on the surface..
It is only a dream but I can easily imagine that some of us would stop separating ourselves from mighty nature, as if we were some superior to it creatures, and begin to practice co-existence with a natural world by learning its ways "first hand". Well, we know that some rare individuals already keep practicing within nature's school as we speak..
Good to hear from you my friend.


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Friday, March 2, 2012
So I'm a Slut?
Rush Limbaugh has said that the only reason for a woman to take birth control is because she's having so much sex that she must be a slut and a prostitute. I will be boycotting every company that sponsors Rush Limbaugh. And, Rush, you need to take the same amount of birth control whether you have sex one or one hundred times. Taking the pill does not reflect poorly on me, or any woman, in any way whatsoever.
Even if you have been a fan of his, surely we can all agree that this crosses the line.
In response to criticism, Limbaugh doubled down. He offered a deal to "feminazis" who support no-cost birth control: "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it... We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
Rush had no right to personally insult Sandra, a law student, and women everywhere. He may be known as extreme, but this goes too far.
I signed a petition with NARAL Pro-Choice America to get Rush dropped from as many local stations as possible, and I hope you sign too.
Thanks for speaking out. Don't let Rush bully women.
9 comments :
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Rush Limbaugh is known for his incendiary comments. He often exaggerates his point, because of his personality and most likely for ratings. But often, the core of his point is quite valid. So I still support him, but not someone who can't seem to understand that he doesn't actually want women to put sex videos on the internet - rather he was he was making the point that tax payers shouldn't be forced to pay for an elective medication.ReplyDelete
I agree with you 1000%. That guy is totally off the wall. It's so disconcerting that people like him are in the limelight. SusanReplyDelete
i had my tubes tied, so what does that make me? a slut that's too lazy to take the pill? lolReplyDelete
I WISH I could sign the petition but I live in Canada! This man is scary..ReplyDelete
- JanineMarch 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM
As a tax payer I don't want to pay for any form of birth control for anyone. I shouldn't be forced to. I find it morally objectionable.ReplyDelete
Thank you for putting in to words everything that I have been thinking and wanting to say! I can't fathom why that man is allowed to continually bash people without taking a deep look at his own faults. Yuck.ReplyDelete
Prevention is key to so many issues, and unwanted children is one of them. I have friends who feel so strongly against supporting Planned Parenthood, and yet, they want nothing to do with paying taxes to help the children that are born and in terrible need either. Hopefully someday the connection of one to the other will become clear.
I have read yours, please read mine. Thanks- I am glad you and myself can voice are oppinions but I agree with Rush. Why does anyone feel they need to have sex before they get married in the first place??? Why should I have to help anyone pay for their health coverage either. I have 2 nephews and 2 neices that my adopted sister had by four different men. My parents raised 2 of them. She had the ability to have prevention and decided not to have it. So life goes on and even so people will keep having sex and expect to take a pill to not have a baby. Thanks for reading it.ReplyDelete
I appreciate your opinion, Scrapfancy. I think you are overlooking the many people who ARE married and use birth control. Rush pooled everyone together - if you take birth control, you are a slut. There are also many people who choose not to get married even though they stay with the same partner forever. If I'm married but my husband and I are barely getting by, should we be having an unwanted baby that we can't support?ReplyDelete
Its very difficult for a middle class person to afford the expenses of family. I agree with you.ReplyDelete
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