Thoughts: Sept 8, 2010
1) I am amazed by a sense of my fellow human animals not having any clue what they are thinking, and helplessly clinging to deep lines of meme-consuming conceptualization. I am done debating issues with machine mind. no more wasting time negotiating. Observe and learn. Read and learn. See the unrelenting destruction of the biosphere.
"Civilization" at Lodown
2) On p.192 Bastard Tongues, Derek Bickerton describing serial verbs in Creoles, example is Sarramacan.
Mi suti Amba kill.
I shoot Amba kill.
Compared to similar with conjunctive "and" in English.
I shot and killed Amba.
Bickerton says linguistics calls unstated subjects and objects (without conjunction like "and") "empty category."
a) shooting viscerally elicits the imagery of killing, so "kill" fills the spot spontaneously. Shooting and killing invites the mind to include all circumstances, instead of enumerating just two, the labels, "shooting" and "killing."
b) there is no explicit past tense - does the creole account of activity constitute a more visceral contraint on the present? Do more civilized languages increasingly desensitize us? In this case, because it is "in the past."
c) the deepest creoles are spoken by post 1st generation plantation workers, who somewhat still have their feet in the soil, but in a near slave-labor capacity. The implication is that as we move deeper into civilization, language etches our brains in reflection of our productive function.
3) Convergent and Parallel Evolution
Similarities in Creoles as an argument for a Grammar Instinct and the Delusion of Jung's Collective Unconscious and Archetype as Primal. Creoles typically evolve around island plantation economies. See below and see Convergent Evolution.
Language structures at all levels are the products of powerful multilevel evolutionary processes, to which innate mental tendencies contribute only one subtle source of the Darwinian selection bias: p.122 (end of 1st paragraph) The Symbolic Species, Deacon.
Resolution
Systematic Studying from this Moment
1) 100 pages a day from 35 books lined up.
2) Working out an anatomy of civilized delusion.
3) Commentary on the machine mind ('politics' and 'social') at lodown
4) Our Species
Things to do:
1) Organize garage
2) Mow lawn
3) Cycle and gym
General Admin September 1, 2010
I must remember to work on my book for now known as "To Exist."
Waiting for used Nikon D70 to arrive today by FedEx.
Photos of today with my new used Nikon D70 at my pics!
Reading on September 1, 2010
I am reading The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Jared Diamond ... now on p.235
My plan is to read 100 to 125 pages per day: 32 books by November 30, 2010. Yesterday I read 140 pp and the day before 100 pp. so everything on schedule so far. The next two books will be
- The Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins
- Bastard Tongues - A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages, Derek Bickerton.
I've fallen behind a little bit ... probably only 70 pp. today. The hardest thing about reading a book is that I want to read all of my books at once. It is hard to not be able to get to the others.
Insider Security
I think it is not out of the question that there is a broad assault on my person by deep-machine minds in my very inside-intellectual wider family circle, several of whom have me blocked on Facebook, and who are most uncomfortable about my scathing social comment, but are unable to pin anything specific on me. I will not be paranoid about this, so that is all I will say. ... let's just say my human sensibility has been slightly piqued.
I Know
I know something no-one else knows. I don't know yet what it is, but I know it is everything.
Diary 2010-May-27
There is a nail in the right rear tire of the Tacoma. Getting it fixed this morning. And continuing studying Human Animal Speech Production. I did sleep only about 4 hours last night, because of sore shoulders. Getting too old for extreme weights at the gym. I can bench press two 120 pound dumbells 12 times, but after days and weeks of well-balanced range of exercises pushing all weights at my limit, my shoulders hurt too much. I will go down to 80 pounds or even 60 pounds on light days, with multiple sets.
Diary 2010-May-20
I have decided to keep this blog daily from now on, and refer to all the other work from here. Check my too many websites up top.
I am asking what "human" means, but only in order to dismantle the mountains of lies common to all civilizations, since the rise of fluent language about 80,000 years ago, (maybe). In the end, after the dismantling of the lies, I suspect the answer would be that "human" defies qualification, just as it defies disqualification. So screw the machine for always wanting to push its fingers and its other digits into me.
In this context see Kevin Kelly's soon-to-be-out book, "What Technology Wants."
Normalized thinking and activity are so endless, our understanding so completely inadequate, and our certainty so delusional! In the mainstream the certainty is about accelerating and expanding that certainty. Ironically the result is acceleration and expansion of uncertainty. In this civilization is so extremely idiotic, sometimes I just want to stand and scream all day long. Like today.
Twitter Predicts the Future
Yes, I guess humans are in charge of their own entertainment in the very short run. "Clairvoyance." What sad testament to human superficiality! Keep in mind that these kinds of snippets of computational pattern are all going into
I want to question Terry Deacon, the writer of The Symbolic Species, about his claim on p.336 that we are often less reliable in predicting each other's behavioral predisposition than pet dogs. Deacon misses that it is not "our" language that gets in the way, but language as self-organizing mechanical parasite in our brains.
Diary 2010-May-13
I started my forum a day ago at http://ourspecies.net/forum
The bots already know about it - twittered early afternoon today 31 were viewing and 3 bots.
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