getting good from imperfect things (more than just words)

getting good from imperfect things (more than just words)

07.23.04 (8:46 pm)   [edit]
before i start my blog topic today!!!

I found a really neat blog today. Liberty's Kid's is maintained by five... yes, FIVE!!! different people. it makes for a good read but commenting could be a big hob to keep up with :D. i wonder how they manage everything. anyway... i was really impressed so go have a look at it!!

onto something i can say. well... i did my washing today. that was my huge exploit for the day. as is commonly known to uni students... they gie us way too much time for holidays and after four weeks you are wondering what to do with all that time!!! only 2 more weeks left to go before i go back to start off five brand new subjects.. yes thats right... they make us do five subjects every semester. how crazy is that!!! plus some unfortunates among us (present company included)... have to work to manage their way along. its a hard life but someone has to do it.

on a piece of philosophical importance to me!!! i was thinking today about whether definitions are infact that important to communication and i got to the stage where i found that there are too many things wrong with defining something as a dictionary meaning and forcing yourself to use it and only it for your particular context.

sure it is easy to say that people communicate much better with common vocabularies.. does it also help if people make an effort to go past words to what someone is thinking. as i have said before... words are such an imperfect medium for communication of such important things as thoughts. that said... i haven't been getting very far on plans to invent a machine which interprets thoughts and transmits them to other people without using their senses.

well in a way it is planned to use sensors and transponders and implants or the like (ethics of which i will get to when i get to that part) but the person "listening" would not have to use their eyes or ears or hands (in case of blindness!!!) the thoughts would just flow on in

it is a tough assignment that i am still scratching the surface of how big it is.

anyway... back to my point about words and deeper meanings past a set of definitions.

a little while ago (like 2 years) i would have thought that it would be perfect to have set out definitions and have an organised communication medium which would work without misunderstandings of alterior interpretations.

but since then i have come to appreciate more fully how rich our language method of communication is... true some people subscribe to theories which say that words are only 5 percent of communication but i am skeptical of that.

language is so rich. many many inventions have come from people misunderstanding words or from people thinking further into a thought than the person who spoke it even did. (sorry, i cant think of any specific examples but i know there are many out there cause i have read many stories/articles about them before)

coming back to words and their importance even as an imperfect medium... words still have to be thought about and chosen mostly so as to at least lead someone toward something. the odd stuff up does not mean you are not wise or that you are a kink in society. we should try to learn and improve from stuff ups

well... if that wasn't a rambling blog (for me) i dont know what is.

i know there are people out there who profess to be wiser than their peers or who take "wise" sayings too far... please listen...

and on a happy note again...

make sure you visit Liberty's Kid's.