[lit-ideas] Re: Do ideas exist before being articulated?
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:14:55 -0500
Have you ever had an idea you had a good deal of trouble putting into words,
explaining to someone? An intuitive kind of idea? An "aha" moment?
Julie Krueger
On 10/15/07, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> John McCreery
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