tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post1814564447957266858..comments2024-03-12T12:23:10.033-04:00Comments on Secular Perspectives: The “Binary Thinking” HabitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-16900593608427038432011-05-20T09:16:09.384-04:002011-05-20T09:16:09.384-04:00Language as a symbolic system lets us signal ideas...Language as a symbolic system lets us signal ideas to other cognitive agents. That's very useful with survival value. Signs and words serve a mind solving problems and representing the future and things to do given future possibility. But it is worth working at having an adequate language system to express our ideas. 3,000 years ago we didn't have much of a vocabulary for Physics or Geometry, but the Greeks helped advance both. We are still doing this for social sciences and Humanism needs some of that language development.Gary Berg-Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104267265989624672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-3304561272943687772011-05-20T01:13:55.933-04:002011-05-20T01:13:55.933-04:00It is profoundly easy to let structural complexity...It is profoundly easy to let structural complexity inappropriately fall into our linguistic categories. Yet without those categories it is difficult even to imagine how best to talk about much of our experience. We sometimes realize that to really communicate about the underlying complexities we would need something of the magnitude of a very large book. It is easier to just be quiet than attempt that.<br /><br />I also enjoyed the video you referenced in the comment.Don Whartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11874733311091724239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-71000073900115728202011-05-19T18:22:50.545-04:002011-05-19T18:22:50.545-04:00For an interesting video showing 2 frames side by ...For an interesting video showing 2 frames side by side of opposites like ice- fire baby- old death- life opposites see<br /><br />http://dooce.com/2011/04/28/symmetryGary Berg-Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104267265989624672noreply@blogger.com