From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #10 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Thursday, January 18 2001 Volume 03 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/hushlecture ["David S. Bratman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:41:44 -0500 (EST) From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: b/hushlecture On the episode "Hush", Maggie Walsh said: > "So this is what it is. Talking about communication, talking about > language. Not the same thing. Talking about three different (but inter-related) ways in which communication and language can differ, actually, and none of them are the conventional one: body language and other such non-verbal communication. > [It's about the way a child can > recognize and produce phonemes that don't occur in its native > language.] That's one. > It's about inspiration, not the idea but the moment > before the idea, when it's total, when it blossoms in your mind and > connects to everything[, before the coherent thought that gives it > shape, that locks it in and cuts it off from the universal. When you > can articulate it, it becomes smaller]. That's another. > It's about thoughts and > experiences that we don't have a word for." (The Greeks might have, though.) That's the third. Food for thought, either way. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #10 ****************************