Re: Cormac Article on Kekulé Problem

[rich]

I'm just hoping we finally get to see The Passenger at some point.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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