Cointinuing Bob's discourse on language and words, the next step was done by Wittgenstein, who said that as tokens, words can be represented by numbers. This is a resurrecting of Pythagoras' statement, that Nature is representable by natural numbers and their harmonies. It is important to keep in mind that numbers have as many interrelationships among each other as words - if not more. And, by the use of computers, we can make their harmonies among each other visible to the human. The inner poetry of words that is behind the words themselves, can be found in the relations among the natural numbers. Karl
2013/10/15 Bob Logan <lo...@physics.utoronto.ca> > Thanks John for alerting us to the terms praxotype and cognotyppe. I have > a simpler formula which I made use of in my book the Extended Mind: The > Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture. Words are simply > concepts and hence thinking tools. Before verbal language hominids > communicated by mimesis, i.e. hand signals, facial gestures, body language > and prosody (non-verbal vocalization) like grunts. As the complexity of > hominid existence increased mimesis did not have the requisite variety for > everyday life. Conceptualization was needed. Verbal language emerged in > which our words were our first concepts. The word water, for example, was a > concept that united all our percepts of the water we drank, washed with, > cooked with, fell as rain, or was found in rivers, lakes or the sea. With > language the brain which before was a percept engine bifurcated into the > human mind capable of conceptualization and hence planning and large scale > coordination. Verbal language allowed us to deal with matters not > immediately available in space and time. I claim that the emergence of > verbal language represented three simultaneous bifurcations: from mimetic > communication to verbal langauge; from the brain as a percept engine to the > mind capable of conceptualization and from hominids to fully human Homo > Sapiens. > > for more details visit > > http://www.academia.edu/783502/The_extended_mind_understanding_language_and_thought_in_terms_of_complexity_and_chaos_theory > > or > > > http://www.academia.edu/783504/The_extended_mind_The_emergence_of_language_the_human_mind_and_culture > > cheers - Bob Logan > > On 2013-10-15, at 2:54 AM, John Collier wrote: > > This term might be useful in the context of the present discussion, > especially in the contest of coordinated practice(s). Cognotype might also > be useful. I think these might lead to a more fine-grained analysis of the > more integrative sociotype.**** > ** ** > > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/09/27/words-are-thinking-tools-praxotype/ > **** > ** ** > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > > > ______________________ > > Robert K. Logan > Chief Scientist - sLab at OCAD > Prof. Emeritus - Physics - U. of Toronto > http://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertKLogan > www.physics.utoronto.ca/Members/logan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > >
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