From: Patrick van den Berg (cirandar@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 23:19:11 BST
--- David MOREY <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Small thought on language.
> Is experience, visual experience a form of language?
> I take Pirsig's idea that to experience something
> it has to show up to you, you have to value it, we don't
> notice what we don't value. Loads of information coming
> towards your senses is ignored. Also if you don't
> differentiate between things then you have no things.
> You have to draw a line between sky and earth to experience
> sky as opposed to earth. All the Derrida deconstruction stuff,
> and the key role of 'differance' -to differentiate and defer-
> seems to apply to our capacity to sense, therefore are the
> experiences of our perceptions a form of language?
Okay, interesting. Yes, in the sense that our brains caricature reality,
just like language in words does. It cuts reality up in pieces. We don't
see a caleidoscope of colors, we see a computer, a desk, and a glass of
wine (at least I do ;-)). Just like a language is not a bunch of random
letters, but ordered in parts (words).
But on the other hand, vice versa, the language of words is perception
as well. We don't think in pure syntactical terms. We use our
imagination (a spinn-off from pure perception) when we hear "table" or
"chair" (to use the dull examples many philosophers always choose ;-)).
And if intonation, accent, nonverbal gestures and such are a part of
language, then we can sense meaningful nuances in talking to people that
stretches beyond words toward the realm of perception and emotion etc.
Now I have to stop before the wine sinks in too much :-)
Greetings, Patrick.
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