The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

No problem, you non-semantically discrimiinatiing
pinhead...exactly where did I denigrate language?
lol!..man, you need to take a reading comprehension
class....I said that jokers who express
generalizations like " There is nothing outside of
language" are making statements about as sensible or
meaningfull as " colorless green ideas sleep
furiously"...Pinker obviously feels language is very
important...super important...he just, and I'll repeat
the basic idea for the slow-to-encode, doesn't find
reasons to say that it is the ONLY important thing,
nor is it the ONLY means by which we "think"...we can
think non-verbally as well...he isn't as Absolutist or
Nazi about his interests as are your little coterie of
self-aggrandizing irresponsible philosophers who can't
seem to BEAR the idea of sticking a few fair
conditionals, qualifications or doubts in there
propositions....Dennet is a philosopher, and he has no
problem saying things like, " and I could be dead
wrong here...." or " ...as far as I can tell"..or " it
seems reasonable to expect that "...etc, etc.
etc....how often do these kind of remarks appear in
Derrida? Or Hegel?...I guess the rule here is: "don't
relibquish the tyranny of your ego when expounding
your theory"...something kinda weird coming from Crit
Theory people who at least SEEMED to have a Big Issue
with Powers Imposing Themselves On
Us....Hmmmmmmmmm...well, gotta go piss on my
matress...

--- Joel Katz <mittelwerk at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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