What an excellent hierarchy! On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 5:58:24 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote:
> This is very Off-Topic, but I can't resist, and I am pretty sure this is > mentioned in at least one of the Lakoff books: > the classification of Animals that Jorge Luis Borges claimed to have found > in an old Chinese encyclopedia, > *The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.* > > According to this, the Chinese classified animals into: > > a) those belonging to the emperor > b) those that are embalmed > c) tame or trained ones > d) suckling pigs > e) mermaids and sirens > f) those that are fabulous > g) stray dogs > h) those included in the present classification > i) frenzied ones > j) innumerable ones > k) those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush > l) other ones > m) those that have recently broken a water pitcher > n) those that from a long way off look like flies > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 9:42:27 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Same here. >> >> On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 2:36:54 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: >> >>> I think I laughed out loud when I saw the first book of his(*) in a shop >>> and knew I had to read it just from the title >>> >>> "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" >>> >>> (*)OK, co-written >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 4:20:13 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Philosophy in the Flesh - wow - that takes me back a long way. Amazon >>> says I ordered it in 2001. I thought it was even earlier than that. My >>> copy is in storage somewhere so I can't browse through it now. Lakoff has >>> many books that are good reading. If you don't realize how deeply important >>> metaphors are in everyday thinking and speaking, go out and get one or >>> another of them. >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 5:40:22 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: >>> >>> On Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 10:54:42 PM UTC-5 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> DeepWiki: Your AI-Powered Guide to GitHub Repositories: >>> https://apidog.com/blog/deepwiki/ >>> >>> https://deepwiki.com/leo-editor/leo-editor >>> >>> >>> Thanks for all your comments. Despite the OMG nature of the summary, I >>> remain deeply skeptical about AI. >>> >>> Imo, it's a continuing challenge to remember the utterly alien nature of >>> AI. They have no human bodies, emotions, or experiences. They are unlikely >>> to serve us humanely. Instead, they serve their billionaire masters. See >>> the reviews of Move Everything Forever >>> <https://www.amazon.com/More-Everything-Forever-Overlords-Humanity/dp/1541619595> >>> >>> in Nature >>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01145-5https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01145-5>and >>> >>> Science <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3202>. >>> >>> For a discussion of what the embodied mind entails, I recommend George >>> Lakoff's Philosophy in the Flesh >>> <https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Flesh-Embodied-Challenge-Western/dp/0465056741> >>> . >>> >>> Edward >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/9134664c-896f-4382-9441-41ddaf1e9076n%40googlegroups.com.
