Linguistics

Language forms one's mind, and, then, one's formed-mind is reflected in the language one uses.

"Collaborative Intelligence" is a book on working-with 3 of the 4 kinds of innate-mind-language:

• AbstractShapeCognition, or implication-patterns
• VisualCognition
• AuditoryCognition
• KinestheticCognition

are the 4 kinds that I know-of.

The AbstractShapeCognition kind ( my kind ) apparently makes up a significant fraction of physicists.

The book only deals-with the other-3, however.

Why does that have any significance, whatsoever?

Translating EVERYTHING from AbstractShapes into English .. gets exhausting & frustrating.

Temple Grandin has a couple of TED Talks.

She thinks in movies.

then translates what the variant-movies showed her into words, to communicate.

Language is confining.

Languate is enabling between people, and also between oneself & one's thoughts, but it is crippling.

Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" is on how self-consistent-formal-systems are INHERENTLY mind-blind to all that the formation of the formal-system doesn't/won't see.

Leonard Shlain's "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" book identifies that women's-rights simply doesn't get much of anywhere, in language/cultures which speak more-gendered language.

ie Anglo cultures have more women's-rights than Latin cultures, with their gendered-language.

That is consistent, & durable.

It gave me dispair for human potential, when I discovered that many language-families program people into genderizing everything, & locking "validity", in establishment's eyes, from "female".

That isn't going to change.

Which means that humankind is less-likely to endure The Great Filter, this century.

The "shackles binding our Potential" are too strong, and too strongly-valued, for humankind to break, enough?

It looks more & more like this is the case.

See the fallacy of wrong-framing, and understand that all human languages are wrong-framing something.

Each language is better at some things, but worse at others, and incapable of some concept-expressing...

That alters our viability, planet-scale.

In "The Design Of Everyday Things", it noted that we've a species-wide mental-defect:

When we do something, and it doesn't work, instead of agilely changing-what-we're-doing, we do what we already-were-doing, MORE FORCEFULLY.

That is why I ditched Emacs for Vim: Vim keeps hitting one on the head with one's not-changing-levels, thereby conditioning one's mind into the habit of changing-levels, counter to that innate species-wide ignorance/incompetence.

Morass-of-capability ( emacs ) was fun, but I NEED to be able to see what need be seen, need to be able to think what need be thunk, etc, and not-changing-levels is an already-known-incompetence?

And I'm autistic? ( making that much worse, with woodenheadedness/monotropism )

Vim forces the change in mental-habit.

Some equivalent is going to be required, species-wide, to force-change our language, in order to make our viability more-likely, XOR our conditioned mental-habit is going to sink a greater percentage of our species' life, this century.

Oh, & Temple Grandin's thinking in movies nuked the entire "without language, thinking cannot happen" school of philosophy, didn't it?

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