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Paul Twitchell did it. Harold Klemp too. Doug Marman is still doing it.
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Henosis Sage
May 16, 2016, 5:38:06 AM5/16/16
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(taster) Christopher Hitchens on Noam Chomsky (2m33s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUO1na4faAc
Scientists do it. Philosophers, too. Paul Twitchell did it. Harold Klemp too.
Doug Marman is still doing it. So do authors, journalists, and other media gurus.
Religious and spiritual teachers do it, and then influence millions of followers
to do it. Everyone, it seems, speaks before thinking—communicating in clichés.
We all carry these “thought viruses,” infecting almost everyone we come in
contact with. If you stop and pay attention, you can probably recognize common
cognitive gremlins flowing from your own lips from time to time.
George Lakoff calls this thinking in "conceptual metaphor." Others think of these
things as "mindsets" or "worldviews". Author Christian de Quincey calls them
“blindspots” — ideas we assume make sense, but a few moments’ reflection reveals
how absurd they really are.
We all have them: gaps or knots in how we view and think about the world — about
life, mind, space, time, energy, information, healing, free will, reality,
belief, self, relationships, evolution, artificial intelligence, miracles, God
. . . science, spirituality, metaphysics . . . or anything else.
de Quincey's book "BlindSpots: 21 Good Reasons to Think Before You Talk"
challenges commonly held beliefs and assumptions about topics that matter to us
all. This book will make you think in new ways about things you thought you knew.
About things that you earnestly believe you are absolutely certain about but are
in fact totally wrong about . . . along with almost everyone else as well.
If you ever wondered what it’s like to truly think outside the box, these pages
will show you how. Philosopher de Quincey pulls the box apart and shows you
step-by-step how and why everyday ideas often run off the rails. And us along
with them. More important: He also shows you how to turn “blind-spots” into
“bright-spots” full of insight, intuition, and illumination . . . and even some
truth.
References More Info for the Wise:
BlindSpots: 21 Good Reasons to Think before You Talk by Christian de Quincey
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blindspots-christian-de-quincey/1121115985
The Nature Of Consciousness with Christian de Quincey, Ph D on New Dimensions
In this provocative dialogue Christian de Quincey describes the difference
between consciousness and energy as 'Consciousness knows, energy flows'.
May 16th 2016 Audio Interview https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pe8LwEJgK3
The Dr. Pat Show Talk Radio with Author Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.
https://www.transformationtalkradio.com/episode/the-dr-pat-show-talk-radio-to-thrive-by-blindspots-21-good-reasons-to-think-before-you-talk-with-author-christian-de-quincey-ph-d,21977.html
Conceptual metaphor in Everyday Language by Lakoff-Johnson 1980
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/575/F01/lakoff.johnson80.pdf
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors We Live By
http://www.berliner.dk/mediesnak/opgaver/lj_noter.pdf
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
Author: Lakoff, George, UC Berkeley
Publication Date: November, 1993
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/54g7j6zh
George Lakoff on how he started his work on conceptual metaphor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-9rpJITY8
Idea Framing, Metaphors, and Your Brain - George Lakoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CWBjyIERY
AAA+ Video Lecture
George Lakoff: How Brains Think: The Embodiment Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUnMCq-ARQ
Noam Chomsky on the unsolved mysteries of language and the brain
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/noam-chomsky-galileo-challenge-origin-of-language/7284178
What are words worth? Well they are worth thinking about, and that’s what Noam
Chomsky has spent a lifetime doing.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/noam-chomsky-on-the-hard-stuff/7245630
“Noam Chomsky on the unsolved mysteries of language and the brain”
‘We’re beginning to understand the puppet and the strings, but we have no idea
about the puppeteer.’
Modern theory cannot wholly explain or describe the component parts of human
language, but by one metric that might not even be a failure. After all, the
mechanical philosophy of Newton—and Liebniz, and Huygens, all the way back to
Descartes—didn’t last forever. After Newton, Chomsky says, ‘The whole approach
to science changed in a subtle way.
‘Instead of seeking to show that the world is intelligible to us, the goals of
science were implicitly lowered to construct theories that are intelligible to
us.’
As an example of a theory explaining a non-intelligible world, Chomsky cites
the recent confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves predicted by
Einstein. ‘That theory,’ he says, ‘is intelligible to us—but the conception on
which it is based, of curved space-time, of quantum principles involved, for
Galileo through Hume and Locke and so on, that would have been outside the
framework of their science.
‘They’re intelligible, but the world isn’t. It isn’t a machine.’ Humans are not
machines either, and there are limits to what we can understand about ourselves.
‘Assuming that we’re organic creatures, and not angels,’ Chomsky says wryly,
‘we have certain fixed capacities which yield the range of abilities that we
have—but they impose limits as well.
‘Our human genome directs us to develop arms and legs, not wings; a mammalian
visual system, not an insect one.’
It follows, Chomsky says, that there are hard limits to what humans can
understand about the brain, and therefore its language. [end quotes]
Noam Chomsky on the Media, Intellectuals, & Self-deception (compilation 1988-2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o
Noam Chomsky 1992 Lost Interview by John Pilger RARE!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVS_tQn5f94
Entertainment for the not so wise who imagine they are smarter than yeast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otYAIaX9saI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUO1na4faAc
Scientists do it. Philosophers, too. Paul Twitchell did it. Harold Klemp too.
Doug Marman is still doing it. So do authors, journalists, and other media gurus.
Religious and spiritual teachers do it, and then influence millions of followers
to do it. Everyone, it seems, speaks before thinking—communicating in clichés.
We all carry these “thought viruses,” infecting almost everyone we come in
contact with. If you stop and pay attention, you can probably recognize common
cognitive gremlins flowing from your own lips from time to time.
George Lakoff calls this thinking in "conceptual metaphor." Others think of these
things as "mindsets" or "worldviews". Author Christian de Quincey calls them
“blindspots” — ideas we assume make sense, but a few moments’ reflection reveals
how absurd they really are.
We all have them: gaps or knots in how we view and think about the world — about
life, mind, space, time, energy, information, healing, free will, reality,
belief, self, relationships, evolution, artificial intelligence, miracles, God
. . . science, spirituality, metaphysics . . . or anything else.
de Quincey's book "BlindSpots: 21 Good Reasons to Think Before You Talk"
challenges commonly held beliefs and assumptions about topics that matter to us
all. This book will make you think in new ways about things you thought you knew.
About things that you earnestly believe you are absolutely certain about but are
in fact totally wrong about . . . along with almost everyone else as well.
If you ever wondered what it’s like to truly think outside the box, these pages
will show you how. Philosopher de Quincey pulls the box apart and shows you
step-by-step how and why everyday ideas often run off the rails. And us along
with them. More important: He also shows you how to turn “blind-spots” into
“bright-spots” full of insight, intuition, and illumination . . . and even some
truth.
References More Info for the Wise:
BlindSpots: 21 Good Reasons to Think before You Talk by Christian de Quincey
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blindspots-christian-de-quincey/1121115985
The Nature Of Consciousness with Christian de Quincey, Ph D on New Dimensions
In this provocative dialogue Christian de Quincey describes the difference
between consciousness and energy as 'Consciousness knows, energy flows'.
May 16th 2016 Audio Interview https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pe8LwEJgK3
The Dr. Pat Show Talk Radio with Author Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.
https://www.transformationtalkradio.com/episode/the-dr-pat-show-talk-radio-to-thrive-by-blindspots-21-good-reasons-to-think-before-you-talk-with-author-christian-de-quincey-ph-d,21977.html
Conceptual metaphor in Everyday Language by Lakoff-Johnson 1980
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/575/F01/lakoff.johnson80.pdf
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors We Live By
http://www.berliner.dk/mediesnak/opgaver/lj_noter.pdf
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
Author: Lakoff, George, UC Berkeley
Publication Date: November, 1993
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/54g7j6zh
George Lakoff on how he started his work on conceptual metaphor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-9rpJITY8
Idea Framing, Metaphors, and Your Brain - George Lakoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CWBjyIERY
AAA+ Video Lecture
George Lakoff: How Brains Think: The Embodiment Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUnMCq-ARQ
Noam Chomsky on the unsolved mysteries of language and the brain
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/noam-chomsky-galileo-challenge-origin-of-language/7284178
What are words worth? Well they are worth thinking about, and that’s what Noam
Chomsky has spent a lifetime doing.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/noam-chomsky-on-the-hard-stuff/7245630
“Noam Chomsky on the unsolved mysteries of language and the brain”
‘We’re beginning to understand the puppet and the strings, but we have no idea
about the puppeteer.’
Modern theory cannot wholly explain or describe the component parts of human
language, but by one metric that might not even be a failure. After all, the
mechanical philosophy of Newton—and Liebniz, and Huygens, all the way back to
Descartes—didn’t last forever. After Newton, Chomsky says, ‘The whole approach
to science changed in a subtle way.
‘Instead of seeking to show that the world is intelligible to us, the goals of
science were implicitly lowered to construct theories that are intelligible to
us.’
As an example of a theory explaining a non-intelligible world, Chomsky cites
the recent confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves predicted by
Einstein. ‘That theory,’ he says, ‘is intelligible to us—but the conception on
which it is based, of curved space-time, of quantum principles involved, for
Galileo through Hume and Locke and so on, that would have been outside the
framework of their science.
‘They’re intelligible, but the world isn’t. It isn’t a machine.’ Humans are not
machines either, and there are limits to what we can understand about ourselves.
‘Assuming that we’re organic creatures, and not angels,’ Chomsky says wryly,
‘we have certain fixed capacities which yield the range of abilities that we
have—but they impose limits as well.
‘Our human genome directs us to develop arms and legs, not wings; a mammalian
visual system, not an insect one.’
It follows, Chomsky says, that there are hard limits to what humans can
understand about the brain, and therefore its language. [end quotes]
Noam Chomsky on the Media, Intellectuals, & Self-deception (compilation 1988-2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o
Noam Chomsky 1992 Lost Interview by John Pilger RARE!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVS_tQn5f94
Entertainment for the not so wise who imagine they are smarter than yeast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otYAIaX9saI
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