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Language and the Mind

Bruce Smith | 09.09.06 | 03:33 PM |
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Think about what language tools you would need to cover the bases in the world of persons and their behavior. One of the essential tools would be having the competence to articulate fundamental concepts. You would have to include the functionally related Concepts of Persons, Behavior, World, and Language as the major concepts in this domain.

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Mind beyond language?
Submitted by Jeffery DeCelles on September 9, 2006 - 8:10pm.

I envision a synthesis of techniques engaging maximal sensory bandwidth: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, to bypass linguistic acculturation as much as possible.(Enter The Matrix,"take the Red pill") McLuhan's insights suggest all languages limit awareness. I note the admonition to "become as little Children", and suggest pre-verbality, and unacculturated immersion in sensoria as central aspects of an enhanced communication modality. Taoist and Zen traditions point to this. JED

Mind Beyond Language
Submitted by Sharon McCarthy on September 18, 2006 - 6:27pm.

Our brain excels in the realm of an expanded sensory net. Yet our culturally programmed, linguistically driven mind does tend to filter, distort or otherwise 'frame' what we allow ourselves to receive from our luminous world. Our inherent capacity for language is still a gift and with it, we can assist others to 'separate mind from brain' - increasing the possibility of greater resonance between human beings.

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