Good and interesting, Marsha. I'm a big fan, as you know. But I wonder... what if I like thinking thoughts? What if I enjoy it?
He compared being trapped in our thoughts like an "east german prison camp" and I thought of that foreign movie that got the academy award some years back, Life is Beautiful. A Jewish man and his son are put in a concentration camp by Nazis and the man tells his son that the whole thing is an elaborate game and he has to play it well in order to win the prize (a real tank) and sure enough, it works in the end. The boy plays the game so well, that he wins a tank. Even though the game is made up, and the world we inhabit is often destructive and evil, when the game is played with intention and sincerity, we win. And Matt, I think I grasp now what you say troubles you about "all the way down". So let me modify it. "It" may not be language ALL the way down, but it's language as far down as I can see, and language as far down as I need to go. John On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:48 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings< > > B. Alan Wallace is a philosopher of science, and his humorously named > Wallace Syndrome talks of language 'all the way down.' It's only ten > minutes > and you might find it interesting. > > > Marsha > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
