Re: Cormac Article on Kekulé Problem

[Mark Kohut]

My self-understanding is rife with examples of me using language to solve
problems, Cormac---can I call you that?
I have to stop there, I'm afraid.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting, too. I leapt immediately to the early written languages, with
> easiest examples being Egyptian and Aztec. The ourobos, of the benzene
> dream is among the most ancient symbols used by humans. And so on. Human
> consciousness is immensely complex. Studying the available information on
> neuroscience is dizzying, endlessly fascinating. As one neuroscientist put
> it, we now know enough about the human brain to say definitively that we
> know almost nothing about it. The layering of consciousness is puzzling at
> every level. Trees communicate at a chemical level, and their
> communications can travel through a forest faster than men can cut it down.
> It's easy to make the leap to thinking of existence itself as an attempt at
> expression on the grandest scale. Our own subjective communication is
> complex enough to leave every psychologist on the planet baffled. Great
> article. Thanks, for the wake-up, Rich!
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:19 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> at least something new from CM
>>
>> http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem
>>
>>
>>
>
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