No Talking Tuesday # 99

This Tuesday found me at a Philosophy meet up group in Berkeley.
The idea of sitting in a coffee house and trying to out parry strangers
with half baked philosophical theory didn't strike me as too exciting.
But when I saw the theme for this discussion was going to be:
"How is linguistic communication possible?"
and that it was going to be held on a Tuesday,
well the irony was just too good to pass up.


The List:

Hey everyone I'm Ali. I'm interested in the utility of language.
It might be interest to imagine "Why does linguistic communication
have to be possible? Why exactly do we need it to work?

We spoke earlier about thinking of nouns as verbs.
That if you choose, you can eliminate the boundaries between things (i.e. a table is space "table-ing")
but even then you're simplifying it into divided contrasting states, of what is, from what is not.
So maybe language is defining contrast and boundary in a fluid sea of perception, immediate or imagined.
These encapsulated and compromised bits of experience work as lily pads for others or yourself to follow,
to program a chain of experience that yourself or others can play back to anchor to a fixed state,
and that experience of feeling a fixed state in a sea of change could be the core of ego.
So language and communication, though based in some degree in empathy, is really about separation,
of yourself from others and experience from the sea of reality.