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Re: We seem to be wired for that mistake.  
Re: We seem to be wired for that mistake. -- crossbowman Post Reply Top of the thread Forum
Posted by: Angus Cunningham
02/10/2008, 16:24:32

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If we are wired, I can tell you from my own experience that we are not hard wired but that we appear now to be socially so wired with language providing much of the wiring.

One can, as is narrated in my upcoming book, VTT, explore the consequences of using language to articulate what, at virtually the same time, is both subjectively true and objectively true.

Consider the term "I have X state of being now", where 'X state of being' is limited to a noun label, such as anger is a noun label for a category of emotions with whose signs, internal and external, we are almost all very familiar. Almost everyone has, since childhood, become quite expert at recognizing the signs of anger, both one's own in visceral sensations, and another's in visible and aural and sometimes tactile senses. Thus, if "I have anger now" is an honest statement of my subjective feeling, it will be recognized as an objectively true statement by another who is observing with even the slightest degree of attention.

I invite you to verify this for yourself in the company of a friend. You may not have anger, but you will have some emotion or other. You only have to be honest. Incidentally, if you should happen not to know an accurate noun label for your emotion, you can still use the "I have X state of being now" format to express yourself honestly if you acknowledge ignorance to be a temporary state of being.

Indeed, you may find "I have ignorance now" will become for a period "your default self-articulation". If so, you will be sharing the same category of feeling as Sir Isaac Newton once rather colourfully told us he was having. After having published his phenomenally influential "Principia", he compared himself to someone walking along a sea shore, here and there picking up a particularly shiny pebble, and all the while wondering how infinite in number were the always utterly unique and fascinating pebbles he would never have a chance to pick up!

Another feature of the "I have X state of being" self-reflection or self-articulation is that a state of being is not just a mental feeling or a bodily feeling; it is actually always a bodymind or a mindbody feeling. Hence use of this linguistic form is profoundly integrative of the "parts" of our essential beings that ordinarily used language, in the words "body" and "mind", has been literally, but not truthfully, tearing apart!

The Normans, however, knew better! And I understand the Portuguese still know better! what's this
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