[lit-ideas] Re: Do ideas exist before being articulated?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:36:28 +0900
On 10/15/07, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> John -- if you didn't have a word for "red" would you still see the colour
> of an apple, a tomato, blood? Or, because you didn't have the word for it,
> would your brain simply stop processing data?
>
Of course my brain goes on processing data. It will do that until the
day I die. The question is whether the data has crystallized into an
idea or not. Does ice exist in unfrozen water? Or fire in unburned
wood? It's that kind of question.
John
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John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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