UnbornTao

Is it me, or has the main website's width on mobile changed slightly?

Okay, but I also already think I know what language is. (!) That's why we question and remain open, in a way. Do we really understand what language is? It might be that we're standing on artificial ground - intellect, conclusion, belief, opinion, answers. Which is to say, we take our experience of language entirely for granted as if it were the same as realizing its nature. Set aside everything you think you know about language and look into it - in your experience right now.

If that was the case, avoid it in the first place or at least disclose it. To be clear, this refers to content generated by AI. It's not about grammar correction or the like.

Yeah.

Right, I need to eat some food.

Yeah, my best answer is for us to contemplate what languag eis on our own and maybe then share the results here. Because I don't think it's something that can be easily solved.

Hmm, okay. Let me take some time to contemplate and to think about what to say next.

Feeling automatically and personally invalidated when hearing that something or someone is or may be conformist.

Agree to disagree For example, there's no "message" as an object. What's objectively there is perception, sound, etc.

@Salvijus i just edited that in. Distance, movement, patterns, reactions. To me, that's what comes to mind when watching the video above. So the question remains: what is language?

I am not exactly sure what you mean by that. Distance, movement, patterns, reactions. To me, that's what comes to mind when watching the video above.

You believe?

What is reverberation again?

Oh, there's a second video:

https://christitus.com/windows-to-linux/

What distro do you use? Those laptops are pretty good.

We seem to be running in circles. - OK, let's say that everything reverberates. Isn't there some kind of leap that needs to occur so that the reverberation does more than simply reverberate - so that another being can make sense of the sound, rather than merely perceiving it as meaningless phenomena? (Here, let's take 'reverberation' as sound being heard by someone.) As a simple exercise, consider two people talking. Sounds are made, and the sounds reverberate. BLAH BLAH BLAH. Is that all? We're reading these pixels and making sense of them as we read right now. We are doing something with the pixels, it seems to me. The pixels are just a particular configuration on a screen, forming certain shapes. What can this tell us about language? I'm not conscious of the nature of language yet; I'm sharing some observations that might or might not be true. The point is to take up the questioning for oneself.

Oh no! @Princess Arabia

@Yeah Yeah Got it, thank you.

Was this written by AI?

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Hey, thanks for chipping in. I'd say this is an advocacy for basic common sense and rationality, especially as applied to spirituality. Critical thinking matters. "Belief system" and "cult" are different, though the distinction feels a bit fuzzy to me right now. I'm pointing this out to indicate a certain direction we, as people, tend to go in. And to watch out for this "need" to believe stuff.

https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/what-makes-something-a-cult This site is a good example of high-quality rationality, although I have yet to become more familiar with it.

@Yeah Yeah It's OK to feel this way, can you allow it to be there? Feel it, but don't act it out. It will pass eventually, and you'll be glad you let it be.

Maybe Kant is a good example. At the risk of oversimplifying, he changed the trajectory of philosophy by proposing that the mind does not perceive reality as it is. That may sound lame on paper for some of us - but in this context, what idea doesn't? What form would it even take? I think we tend to assume that an original thought has to look a certain way (like being exceptionally extravagant) - but what way, exactly? What made it original may have had more to do with the origin of the insight itself - experiential - and with the fact that he had authentically seen something true and profound, made a genuine breakthrough, and was able to communicate it in a way that was effective. Just some thoughts.