If AI is that which lives through computational language, would it feel, have desires and sensations? Yes, much observational human behavior can be translated into computations, and even be personified through our perception of them as "beings," but can you truly translate human sensations of feeling, not only emotive response, but subjective bodily feeling? Would …
Category: Language
Obscenity
I don't want to see this because I can't unsee it. But when I finally watched it I understood, nobody is going home.Dave Chappelle, 8:46 I first discovered Dave Chappelle's comedic art through his speech, 8:46, posted on Youtube addressed to his local community in Ohio in response to the murder of George Floyd by …
Expression
"In culture, any culture, we are bound to that which is deemed possible. In the comparative imagination that can relate consciousness to culture and culture to consciousness, we begin to free ourselves for the impossible." Language Language can be seen as one mode of expressing aspects of the unseen. Through definition we divide and separate the …
In the Beginning…
...was the Word One of the insights gathered from studying and attending to the nature of language is to see how close to the body and physical senses everyday language and speech is. The word language itself is derived from the latin "lingua," or tongue. When speaking of our native tongue, we might say that we have two …
Our Lady of the Well
"Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul." Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious In the midst of reading Jung's Red Book, the idea of words and language and their relationship to the underlying wordless reality has begun to haunt me. …
Theoria 