Another one of the little things that are hard to model in how thought works is the idea of information transfer. We imagine a speaker translates thought into words and speaks them, whereupon a listener receives the words and translates them back into thought. If you carefully trace the actual time sequence of events involved, there's no information transfer, just cross fertilization of independent worlds. It's actually the only way a listener can function, to take the jumble of non sequiturs masquerading as communication and make something of them that suites us, slowly building up a mental ecology or original design that works adequately. That 'transfer' is just the wrong model for what physically happens explains a whole lot.
For me sure evidence is that when I actually construct language with unequivocal references that makes pure mathematical sense I absolutely always communicate the least. Without the play between the lines people play with, that language stuff it nearly useless. :) Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
