The alien hypothesis?

[Joel Katz]

yeah why don't we denigrate language just a little bit more, from here 
within our text-based virtual world, you fibrous lump.

and oh, shit, i have to run out and stock my library with the works of 
dennet and pinker, some real rockstars there, as opposed to ... HEGEL, for 
whom language is the primal social universal.




>From: John Doe <tristero69 at yahoo.com>
>To: Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net>,        Pynchon Index Cacorum 
><pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The alien hypothesis?
>Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
>uh...I said Language - not consciousness...the lit
>Crit philosophers stress that Language is everything,
>not that consciousness is everything...Dennet and
>Pinker, et al. stress that language is just one
>component, or power, if you will, of human
>consciousness...
>
>--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > from an empirical standpoint, all there is, is
> > consciousness.....no way
> > to know if there's anything else.....impossible.....
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, John Doe wrote:
> >
> > ....the famous
> > linguistic scientist Steven Pinker, who you would
> > think, given the nature of human vanity, has a
> > vested
> > interest in making his field paramount, denies that
> > language is the only, or even necessarily the PRIME
> > generator of conciousness, let alone All of
> > Reality..
> >
> >
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