[Wittrs] Re: Language as a Set of Cue Cards
- From: "SWM" <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:21:49 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@...> wrote:
>
> ... I think I have figured out the best way to describe language. It's a set
> of cue cards. Imagine a set of complicated cue cards. You are shown a card,
> and it cues your brain into certain functions and processes. We play the game
> of "cue cards" when we communicate. The deck is not stagnant, of course,
> because new cues can be created out of existing ones. We learn the cues, and
> we learn the play for forming cues.
>
>
What strikes me as interesting about this is how it is we make the kinds of
cued associations you reference? What does such an association consist of in
terms of what the brain does? There is no question that we do make such
associations all the time and that a good part of language usage involves doing
that. But what is it to do that? What does the brain actually do when it does
that? I think an answer to this question will have implications for the
philosophical questions as well as the other way round. -- SWM
P.S. By reference I would suggest revisiting my post on my trip up the eastern
seaboard when I saw a sign I didn't comprehend and then, abruptly, got it. What
happened in my mental life (my subjective experience) that constituted my
getting it? Are there mental pictures involved? Representations? And what do
such things consist of? How do they work in the brain and/or why do we think we
have them and, if we think we have them, must we presume we do?
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