atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
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- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:02:50 +1100
or even too late to be a luddite?
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> From: joe_zolin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 11/03/2004 16:49:11
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
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> Mmmmm
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> I believe the issue of mind-control is as much up to the reader of a
> procedure as the writer.
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> I appreciate your viewpoint of emotional control, however, as far as
> misdefining the word programming, I think that a quick reference to the
> dictionary of your choice will demonstrate that programming is in fact a
> word of multiple meanings.
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> Insistance that it is limited to computer-based instruction is IMHO quite
> wrong, yet trying to get people to let go of this misconception is (as
> aptly demonstrated by responses) is very difficult.
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> It's to late to be a ludite!
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> Joe Zolin
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> "BIRTLEY-KENT,Christine"
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> 11/03/2004 04:38 PM
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> I think you are misdefining the word 'programming'.=20=20
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> If you talk to someone, they can choose to hear you and absorb what you
> are saying, but this is not programming. I contend that this is mostly
> what the TW does - talks reasonably and nicely enough for the listener
> to choose to listen. We at no stage take control.
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> But programming a person's thoughts is another thing entirely - it
> entails taking control of their own thoughts and over-ruling them. This
> can only be done by fully recruiting the emotions. The art of
> hypnotherapy relies on the subject being in trusting (ie emotional)
> relationship with the hypnotist, and thus accessible to mental
> programming. Fundamentalist religions and cults work in exactly the
> same way - they capture people emotionally by appealing to their
> emotions - making them feel good, feeding their ego, singing and
> dancing, sometimes scaring the daylights out of them - they engender a
> whole range of potent emotional reactions. Once they have the person
> emotionally disarrayed, they can then program them with a new package of
> thoughts that slip in unresisted.
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> Whilst the two do work together, they are certainly not the same thing.
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> As writers we can choose how much control we take by determining the
> degree to which we will stir the emotions - advertising works this way.
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> Christine
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
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> > joe_zolin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:45 PM
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> > Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
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> > One can programme a dog's responses (see the works of Pavlov et. al.).
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> > One can react with programmed responses (see the responses to=20
> > question for help on this list as an example).
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> > Mayhap the majority interpret the word "programming" as only=20
> > applying to creating instructions for computer processes.
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> > And therein lies the nubbin of contention.
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> > For indeed I believe that programming is not just restricted=20
> > to our silicon-based tools, but is a term to be used when=20
> > providing a set of instructions to be followed to acheive a=20
> > task, whether it be through a programmable tool, a genome,=20
> > or indeed a reader of technical manuals.
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> > Thus I remain convinced, that technical writing
> > Is
> > Programming!
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> > (and yes, OO techniques are another interpretation of how=20
> > things interact, and can be used to provide insight into many=20
> > worldly, nay universal things, not just "computer programming")
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