Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:10:21 +0300 (EET DST)
From: J Laari <jlaari-AT-cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Re: ..cat


Rahul,

if

" Barkley, you can describe anything with words. That's not
meaningful. "

is right, then what is meaningful?

" It's still the case that the neural systems for processing
visual and linguistic information are very different, so
that our thinking is not merely linguistic. "

Of course not.

On the other hand, there seems to be some uncertainty about
what we really know about the whole mess called brain. (Few
years ago local psychologists got brand new equipments. I
had a chat with one guy and jokingly said we'd do
this-or-that experiment. He laughed, 'with these things you
just can tell something happens somewhere, and that's all.'
Seriously, it really looks that we can't make any far
reaching conclusions based on present day brain research.
Not to mention generalizations of philosophical kind. Better
wait few centuries.)

" The interesting thing, though, which the linguistic
reductionists often ignore, is that it is a language unlike
any other that we've developed. "

Surely. So are others. Painting isn't speaking. That's why
we think of them as distinct ones.

So, Rahul, tell us about distinctiveness of mathematics!

Perhaps good old Ilyenkov said something about that, Ralph,
about ideal..? (For me it's time to go bed right now.)

Jukka



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