What can grammar errors teach us about the workings of consciousness ?
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Cosmin Visan
Jul 29, 2019, 2:58:19 PM7/29/19
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Sometimes, it happens to us a particular kind of
grammar errors. There are errors of the type: instead of spelling "light
tie" for example, we end up spelling "tight lie". It is something
peculiar about these kinds of errors, they are not random. They are
trying to tell us something deep about the workings of consciousness. It
appears that consciousness is made up of parts of certain kind, and
sometimes those parts mix up and are unified back together into other
meaningful wholes. And it appears that this mixing up is happening in
some kind of temporal non-local manner. In order to swith L for T in
"light tie", you somehow need to know in advance the T will be after L,
and switch them and put T before L. And this also has to be done such
that the new obtained words are also meaningful. This switch doesn't
generally happen if the new words that are to be obtained don't exist.
So it is really telling us something important about how consciousness
works. But I cannot figure it out exactly what. Any ideas ?
Philip Thrift
Aug 2, 2019, 8:53:25 AM8/2/19
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On Monday, July 29, 2019 at 1:58:19 PM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote:
Sometimes, it happens to us a particular kind of grammar errors. There are errors of the type: instead of spelling "light tie" for example, we end up spelling "tight lie". It is something peculiar about these kinds of errors, they are not random. They are trying to tell us something deep about the workings of consciousness. It appears that consciousness is made up of parts of certain kind, and sometimes those parts mix up and are unified back together into other meaningful wholes. And it appears that this mixing up is happening in some kind of temporal non-local manner. In order to swith L for T in "light tie", you somehow need to know in advance the T will be after L, and switch them and put T before L. And this also has to be done such that the new obtained words are also meaningful. This switch doesn't generally happen if the new words that are to be obtained don't exist. So it is really telling us something important about how consciousness works. But I cannot figure it out exactly what. Any ideas ?
The dialectics of language and consciousness is of course a huge subject of study:
phenomenology of language
cf.
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