UnbornTao

Time to make arepas.

I've never owned a gaming laptop but a handheld like the Steam Deck sounds like a better value proposition to me - provided that gaming is your priority.

I think you're fantasizing rather than actually examining either language or communication. What would it even mean to be in communication with the cosmos? I can understand the desire to feel connected and in unison with the cosmos, and this discussion doesn't necessarily invalidate that. But setting that aside, what is it to communicate? Consider that labels are just one manifestation of language; they're not the same as the space of language, to put it metaphorically. Labeling is just one of the many functions enabled by language, it seems to me. This brings us back to our earlier contention: the idea that communication is somehow stumbled upon by virtue of "stuff happening" in existence - like thinking that solar flares are "communicating" something, and, perhaps most importantly, that it is being communicated to you.

Nerd!

That's fine.

Jesus, calm down people.

How can communication exist without language - without the space or context in which communication shows up? "Language" has to exist first by necessity.

That a sound or image can represent something other than the sound or visuals themselves - yeah, that's based on language. A clap without language is just the sound it makes. Even if it produces a reaction in us, it doesn't mean something is being communicated. But when the clap is able to convey a distinction other than the sound it makes, it is already language. One conflation we (people in general) likely make is this: words are language, or the same as language.

If you approach it merely in an intellectual fashion, of course it comes across as superficial and even lame, because the heart of the matter isn't being addressed in such a case. You just think you've stepped out of it, which, unironically, is enabled by language. But it bears repeating the "taken-for-granted" bit once again - you might be surprised. Pay attention to your experience of language, and you'll start to notice its influence. It doesn't seem profound to you because, according to your previous reply, you were simply holding language as symbols in a coherent framework - and that's only a definition. And it's not even precise. It would be like saying that language is language. Language creates symbol. Notice that, in either case, your certainty actually undermines truly looking into these things. We don't really know what a body or the social world is either. Like most of us, for example, you too consider social reality as, well, real, objective, and true - excluding the superimposed, learned notions about it that still occur within such a world.

Avocados don't care. I personally don't like them that much. Guacamole is great, though. Greater than the sum of its parts

Avocado.

Thanks. Wouldn't most people's feet be weak by this criterion after a lifetime of wearing highly cushioned shoes? Chanclas will do for now

I wouldn't say it's about extra privacy, but rather less intrusion - among other things, such as security. It's a bit like disabling questionable settings on your Facebook account (or some such analogy.) To honor our focus on and love of conformity, I'll recommend the following video: It sums up the sentiment nicely.

@Sincerity Well, it turns out the feature is not available yet for us Android peasants.

@Vali2003 I was wondering what kind of (running shoes) footwear would actually be functional or healthy, and why. I've seen some barefoot shoes, and they look kind of funny to me.

Wait, where the hell is that shit? Is it available on Android?

It does enable entire realities. You couldn't be communicating here and exchanging ideas without it. And worse still, there couldn't be videos from Leo We might ask: What is the purpose of language? and dwell on that. But then again, we don't really experience what language itself is, so by asking what its purpose is, we might be putting the cart before the horse.

What about language?

Sure, though telepathy would still be based on this possibility. For example, what form would telepathy take? Likely some sort of thought-form, which would be enabled by language - at least to a large degree, it seems to me. The very notion of conveying something wouldn't even occur without language.

Decision-making in games tends to be a very limited mechanism anyway. Still, the actions you take can influence the story - low vs high honor. But okay, I give up. You don't haave to like it.

Churrosexual.

🧐 That reminds me of...

Meh. I don't know. Whatever. -- That was a haiku.

@Michal__ Oh, okay. Take care.