UnbornTao

Hiking in the Andes, by Minnesota-based Jagadish Vasudev. Yeah, doesn't sound that enticing.

I say take the risk.

Exactly, it tends to work reasonably well. With Windows, it seems to be more about what you want to avoid than what you're missing.

At some point, she didn't have access to a possibility that you're taking to be a fact of the universe. You assume that a sound must automatically mean or convey something simply because it exists. But in her case, we can see that this connection had to be learned. The sensations of water on her body didn't automatically make her associate them with the experience of w-a-t-e-r. That context wasn't there on its own at the beginning.

It's more closed and less customizable than Windows, but it does have a fairly consistent UI and stays out of its own way. I've found it to be more stable than Windows overall, if only because it doesn't have to cater to multiple hardware configurations. And yeah, it's generally simpler to use.

Amen. The Gospel of Linux. I've found Mint to be quite reliable and stable in my case, so I agree on that.

Thanks. But I added the Helen Keller example above.

What's the sound of one hand clapping? The equivalent koan here could be: Where is language found in two hands clapping? But okay, we are at an impasse. Consider, though, that at some point you didn't know about this possibility of language. You had to learn it. By GPT:

What is a melody, and can it say something by itself? Really look into this. Essentially, it's a set of notes arranged in a certain way - and you react to that. You might feel uplifted, sad, or connected when hearing it. But again, why would that necessarily mean that "languaging" has happened? In this case, I'm referring to music without lyrics, though the point would apply either way. Yeah, but again, language goes beyond the words themselves. It's the notion that something is being conveyed, communicated, or translated into that makes it possible for a word to get an experience across. I think we might be at an impasse at this point. Let's look at where its beauty, and the sense that it "says something," comes from. Wouldn't you say it might have more to do with you than with the sound itself? After all, it's just a perception. It's meaningless input filtered through your perceptive organs. By itself, it is just that - a sound. I'm not a fan of this kind of thinking when it comes to investigating things. Maybe it's true, but in my view, it doesn't really tackle the heart of the matter, which is language. It's a ready‑made answer crafted so I'll finally stop irritating you once and for all.

Needs context. Anyway:

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Chihuahuas are the worst

Reader.

Monkeys can rip off not only your belongings, but also your face.

For sure. I'm not a tech guy, but I like learning about the world of software and different Linux distros. If anything, just for the fun and the philosophy behind it. What distro do you use? Depends on the use case, of course. Have you considered dual-booting? There are decent alternatives out there in the Linux world, I've heard. Affinity is apparently considering developing a Linux version of their app. Could be a decent Photoshop replacement at some point…

Thanks! Watched it a few hours ago. To add to the video you shared:

Yeah, I've been dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows 11, slowly transitioning to a Linux-only setup. I still like to keep Windows around, though, just in case I need it for specific use cases, like light gaming with some kernel-level anti-cheat games. There's a script called Windows Utility, by Chris Titus, that I like to use on Windows. It removes bloat and configures some of that shit for you. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

How much of your life's efforts are spent on "looking good" - on managing how you appear to others?

I think I can see what you mean, but then again, perceiving some change in shape or seeing patterns isn't the same as language. The reverberations themselves are just that - what could they possibly be saying? Why would they care, so to speak? It's like thinking that a glass is "communicating" with you because it fell to the floor, broke, and made a sound, and you produced a reaction as a result of that event. The idea that something is being conveyed is entirely dependent on a linguistic context. Remove that, and it's just whatever the thing is: a perception, a sound, a shape, a visual pattern, a reaction. Geometry is geometry; a shape is a shape; color is color. What actually makes them capable of referring to an experience of what they are not? Language! What you call translation is enabled precisely by this language-possibility. Would you call me scratching a blackboard with my fingernails - and your reaction to that sound - an example of communication? We take the invention of language, and our experience of it, completely for granted, which is understandable. We assume it’s an objective reality. This brings me back to my point: it's hard to experience "life" prior to the invention of language.

There are probably a bunch of these kinds of songs here too:

It was more of an explicit metaphor for the hive mind. I... have no idea how to answer that.

Difficult to say. Have (create in your experience) a thought you've never had. We'll try to come up with different things, likely combining X and Y, as you suggested above, but yeah, it does seem to be a rare occurence.

I was going to say

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