Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Talking ruins [well, changes] everything [at the very least.]

Why does explaining why a cupcake is delicious make us love it less?: "...In her experiments, Moore found that people have different reactions to explaining and sharing different types of experiences. She gives the example of a consumer who might explain that she bought some divine chocolate cupcakes for a friend's birthday...

People who are explaining and sharing hedonic (sensory or emotional) experiences have their emotions dampened, Moore found. "Explaining why a chocolate cupcake tasted so divine makes us love the cupcake a little less, while explaining why a movie was so horrible makes us hate the movie a little less," Moore explains. And people who share about hedonic experiences are less likely to spread word-of-mouth opinions about them in the future."
'via Blog this'

Buddhist philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Another closely related explanation is that reality is devoid of designations, or empty, and therefore language itself is a priori inadequate."

Alfred Korzybski - Wikiquote: "The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all 'knowledge' is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex of relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order. From this point of view, all language can be considered as names for unspeakable entities on the objective level, be it things or feelings, or as names of relations...

The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map..."

Alien Dreamtime with Terence McKenna: "...meaning and language are two different things. And that what the alien voice in the psychedelic experience wants to reveal is the syntactical nature of reality. That the real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."

Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality: "...by the aquisition of words we mosaic over various sectors of this blooming buzzing confusion with words. We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and by the time a child is two or three they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words that is interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium of language and every culture accentuates different parts of reality so that in a sense every culture is a different reality."

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