Kark, all -- I have question about this numbers <--> words concept. For users of a given language much an be communicated by connotation as well as denotation. It seems to me that the matching of numbers to words would not encompass this -- would it? As well, what about synonyms with slightly diifferent meanings?
STAN On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Karl Javorszky <karl.javors...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > >
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