Your words below please me no end!
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Frederick Mann
At 06:57 PM 10/19/98 EDT, RIGHTSBOY@aol.com wrote:
>
>(Do the paradigm ‘slide’, Baby! :)
>
>The Turner Hypothesis:
>---------------------------------
> The evolutionary function of human reason, e.g. such as is extended by human
>linguistic logic, is _not_ to ‘say’ what the world ‘is’, but rather to
specify
>(‘say’) how we should react to our experiences to better enhance our survival
>capacity. Note that the logic of the former ("is") assumption is, by
>definition, rigid and inflexible, thereby leading to ‘behaviors’
>(experiential-reactions) which are likewise; while the logic of the latter is
>suggestive of adaptability, revaluation, and update of reaction logic
>specifications (‘beliefs’; ‘world view’; ‘ideology’; ‘theory’; etc.) based
>upon consistency with further experience.
>
>If you do not immediately recognize the potential ramifications that the
>‘reaction-logic modification’ embodied in the above paragraph has for human
>‘philosophy’ and
>‘politics’, not to mention the complete re-self-definition of the human
animal
>and our
>society, then I suggest you give yourself a thrill and ‘mull it over’ for a
>few minutes. :)
>
>Christopher L. Turner 10-16-98
>
>
>
>From previous posts:
>------------------------------------
>Subject: "Intelligence" Self-Design
>
>Prepare to experience a paradigm "shift":)
>
> What you think the world (or a 'thing') "is", is not. What you think
the
>world "is" is the configuration of your brain's reaction circuitry, the
>synaptic logic which directs your brain's reactions to its experiences. The
>configuration of your brain's experiential-reaction circuitry (ERC) is
>something over which you have potential control -- i.e. it has the capability
>of "designing" its own configuration. As a "human being", your primary tool
>for configuring your ERC logic is your language. And the first step to
>consciously, deliberately, and intelligently engineering your own ERC logic,
>or "intelligence", is to know what you are referring to when you say (and/or
>"think") what the world "is".
>
>Christopher L. Turner 10-03-98
>
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>Subject: Humans as "reaction machines":
>
>We react to our new sensory experiences based on our past experiences. This
>is the principle of 'learning', the survival strategy of neurologically
>'mapping' our environment, at which we humans excel as a species.
>
>We react to our words. We react to a thing or a person, etc., as we react to
>the word(s) we call that thing or person. Our language is the tool we humans
>have developed (or perhaps blindly 'evolved' would be more accurate) for
>programming our reactions to our experiences. We tend to fail to recognize,
>however, that the words we use to describe a thing, and the thing itself, are
>not the same thing. We tend to fail to recognize this because,
culturally, we
>do not express this distinction in our usage of our language. (Reference g-s
>reasons why our language cannot say 'all' about anything, etc.)
>
> This is why we must extend the scientific method to our lives in
>general. We must not be blinded by, or slaves to, our words and our
reactions
>to them. (Etc.)
>
>Chris Turner 9-15-98
>
>
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