tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.comments2023-10-06T06:42:45.714-07:00Korzybski FilesBruce Kodishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07993453727147026944noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-8838540669821656172021-04-22T08:36:02.244-07:002021-04-22T08:36:02.244-07:00Walter Polakov was’t a Jew. His father Nikolai Pol...Walter Polakov was’t a Jew. His father Nikolai Polyakov came from a Russian bourgeois family, his mother Alina Khvostova was from the noble family of the Khvostov (on the paternal side) and from the old Russian noble family of the Sushkov (on the maternal side).Ksatrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03370888455767034365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-67212056996565152982021-02-14T00:24:06.864-08:002021-02-14T00:24:06.864-08:00The old address does not work. A new one only sugg...The old address does not work. A new one only suggests papers existence but does not offer an online version https://library.stanford.edu/collections/r-buckminster-fuller-collection<br /><br />Maybe I'm missing somethings.Justinas Beinoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095883039173502728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-80453990739923354852020-01-07T11:38:34.206-08:002020-01-07T11:38:34.206-08:00The mp3 files of the Science and Sanity Podcast ar...The mp3 files of the Science and Sanity Podcast are not available at the pages. Any other way I can get them?Rajendrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06322000399095434332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-1439280808944785662019-10-07T14:07:15.520-07:002019-10-07T14:07:15.520-07:00I was looking up old friends and came to this site...I was looking up old friends and came to this site. I knew Jean in Alvin from the 3 grade to 12th and we were in the Boy Scouts together. We would have "sleepovers" and went to Scout camps, national jamborees, played chess.... together. Even a couple of double dates since he had a fancy car. (Eldorado) At no time did he let his physical problems dictate what he did or did he use them for self imposing limitations. dennis222https://www.blogger.com/profile/01011636595374823467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-30661715147314661762018-09-08T09:15:25.827-07:002018-09-08T09:15:25.827-07:00Deliberation is a language-act. By that I mean th...Deliberation is a language-act. By that I mean that deliberation is choosing between alternatives that are reduced by language. For example: between items written out on a menu. That is, they are already artificially defined by language. But we can not and do not choose natural aspects or actions of life. For example: whether to eat or not.<br /><br />Man usually fails to differentiate between the natural and the artificial, and this is the reason for confusions and difficulties between so-called "free will" and so-called "determinism". These terms themselves are language reductions of infinitely complex, ineffable, life phenomena. It is language that artificializes actions and thoughts, reduces them and defines them. But in eating, we don't just choose between a steak or a salad or a soup, we do an infinite amount of other "things" - that aren't even things as such. <br /><br />We don't see how language has created these illusions and false problems for us. We chase the problems in circles because we want to use our intelligence and be smart and figure things out, etc. If we realize the provisionality and artificiality of language, the problems and puzzles dissolve. Didn't Wittgenstein say something about all philosophical problems being language problems?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-28387330421159405812018-09-01T22:32:59.760-07:002018-09-01T22:32:59.760-07:00https://www.aaas.org/historic-fellowshttps://www.aaas.org/historic-fellowsNestor Talledonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-81203925021225711512018-08-02T22:53:43.193-07:002018-08-02T22:53:43.193-07:00Keyser's concept of "logical freedom"...Keyser's concept of "logical freedom" seems to be the synthesis of these two!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02725175206527681317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-76173092634191519502018-06-29T20:54:33.295-07:002018-06-29T20:54:33.295-07:00Hi, I love this book! Thanks so much for the autho...Hi, I love this book! Thanks so much for the author's work. Would it be accurate perhaps to say that what Korzybski is doing is teaching a "negated dialectics"? As in rather trying to teach everyone the logic of dialectical reasoning, Korzybski realized the best thing to do is to train people not to talk in an Aristotelian (non-dialectical) way. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02725175206527681317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-32710384807731480972018-04-04T19:58:40.874-07:002018-04-04T19:58:40.874-07:00Thanks for providing such useful information. Hope...Thanks for providing such useful information. Hope to get some more information in future also.<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.mindvalley.com/alan-watts/" rel="nofollow">Alan Watts</a>Mindvalleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07258228697025638864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-50761299277513301862017-10-26T12:51:56.784-07:002017-10-26T12:51:56.784-07:00How?How?Bruce Kodishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07993453727147026944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-82376462637162339272017-08-23T22:25:18.901-07:002017-08-23T22:25:18.901-07:00we are doing alright, Bruce:)
WSwe are doing alright, Bruce:) <br />WSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-427722812595945102017-07-27T21:27:17.676-07:002017-07-27T21:27:17.676-07:00How paradoxical it "is" (or not?) that t...How paradoxical it "is" (or not?) that the meaning of General Semantics itself be so distant from general public understanging to what Korzybski originally thought?<br />Maybe GS itself is a living example of what it means.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00416938815964534515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-15280743437790179002017-06-13T15:35:37.607-07:002017-06-13T15:35:37.607-07:00Could one you explain, please? Or is it obvious? Could one you explain, please? Or is it obvious? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-38786204919222037122017-05-08T16:08:54.953-07:002017-05-08T16:08:54.953-07:00Are you trying to get money from your websites or ...Are you trying to <b>get money</b> from your <b>websites or blogs</b> by running <b>popunder advertisments</b>? <br />If so, did you know about <b><a href="http://popups.syntaxlinks.com/r/PropellerAds" rel="nofollow">PropellerAds</a></b>?Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-14955338970243997752017-03-21T02:45:28.853-07:002017-03-21T02:45:28.853-07:00Thanks! This looks interesting!Thanks! This looks interesting!Liftplushttp://www.liftplus.pl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-33686243555049934302017-03-16T22:21:04.056-07:002017-03-16T22:21:04.056-07:00THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU a million times ov...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU a million times over. I've been struggling with Science and Sanity for several years, but now I feel confident that I can get through it with this audio as my reading companion :D Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16941635349216944301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-88614252252185367802017-03-04T14:01:18.915-08:002017-03-04T14:01:18.915-08:00"Lying"
How could we index and date tha..."Lying"<br /><br />How could we index and date that "loaded" muliti-ordinal term further. I find myself at a loss to comment more at the moment.Jeffrey A. Mordkowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630035069415778578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-73545060220244854572016-12-29T05:10:19.686-08:002016-12-29T05:10:19.686-08:00Yes. Follow your breathing in quiet experiments an...Yes. Follow your breathing in quiet experiments and the hustle and bustle and of your life and allow what is needed to occur.Jeffrey A. Mordkowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630035069415778578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-38505204712299220952016-10-01T19:45:12.281-07:002016-10-01T19:45:12.281-07:00Bruce: My name is Bob Kent and I am writing an ar...Bruce: My name is Bob Kent and I am writing an article about Murray Schloss. Can you provide me with a source of your reference to Alfred meeting Murray at the Hill Top Club and also a copy of the rules and procedures of the club as noted in reference 2 in chapter 17. Murray also formed Hill Top Clubs in other Cities including Los Angeles.<br /><br />Bob Kent<br />Environmental and Western History<br />Menifee, Ca<br />email: sbkent11@gmail.commenifee residenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01426989573573173514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-78164746481614747942016-10-01T09:10:02.912-07:002016-10-01T09:10:02.912-07:00Glad you got my comments -- I wasn't sure if y...Glad you got my comments -- I wasn't sure if you were still around. I look forward to your future writing. Can you put my on some list (not sure what that would be) to ensure I get a notification when you post something new?<br /><br />Thanks -- BruceBruce Marrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05926795925232489860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-58581490717278054792016-09-29T14:13:19.377-07:002016-09-29T14:13:19.377-07:00Bruce,
I sincerely appreciate your critical comme...Bruce, <br />I sincerely appreciate your critical comments and corrections. <br /><br />As time has passed, since I published this piece, my respect for Ayn Rand and her work has grown and taken on a greater and greater importance to me. <br /><br />What appears as a vast divergence of views between Rand and Korzybski, is not so. <br /><br />I will be writing more in the future about the convergence and intersection of those two great formulators as well as their differences. <br /><br />Thanks again for you comments.<br />Bruce Kodishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07993453727147026944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-84179521313307085752016-09-28T11:47:01.914-07:002016-09-28T11:47:01.914-07:00"In modern times, with the growing complexiti..."In modern times, with the growing complexities, a theory of values, with extensional techniques for educational guidance and self-guidance, become imperative." <br />—Alfred Korzybski, <br />Preface to the Third Edition, Science and Sanity (1948)Bruce Kodishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07993453727147026944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-17884128961237736852016-04-21T13:45:24.968-07:002016-04-21T13:45:24.968-07:00Hi Bruce,
This is a very interesting piece, parti...Hi Bruce,<br /><br />This is a very interesting piece, particularly as I'm just six weeks from finishing my MA thesis in "Human Science" on the specifics of this area of Bateson's thought. <br /><br />The thesis title is: "Demystifying the 'Double Bind': Gregory Bateson and the Outlines of a Cybernetic Epistemology (New Science of Living Organisms)". One of my major chapters, which I'm finishing at the moment, has the following sections:<br /><br />The Processes of Perception<br />-The Fallacy of Unmediated Perception: Conscious Products and Unconscious Processes<br />-Biological Adaptation: Binocular Vision and 'Double Description'<br />-The Notion of Difference<br />-----Difference cannot be Localized<br />-----Difference is not Quantifiable<br />-----Difference cannot be placed in "Objective" Time<br />-----Difference is Abstract and Immanent<br />-----Potential Differences and Ideas<br />----------The Conversion of Static Differences into 'Events in Time'<br />-----Effective Differences, Information, and the 'Difference which makes a Difference'<br />----------From "External" to "Internal": Proportional Ratios of Difference<br />-----------------Metabolic Energy: The Bridge between Pleroma and Creatura<br /><br />It seems that Bateson built upon the Weber-Fechner law of ratio differences, and also Norbert Wiener's finding that the tension of a muscle is proportional to the logarithm of the frequency of neural impulses travelling to the muscle. From the above, it appears that William James may have been attempting to also elaborate on the Weber-Fechner law of the 1830s. However, it seems that Bateson made a lot more sense out of it.....at least that is what I'm finding.<br /><br />With best wishes,<br />Janan Yousif <br /><br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139752477863135922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-74240173869720650032016-02-22T21:53:51.267-08:002016-02-22T21:53:51.267-08:00So . . . are you aware of any approaches to a &quo...So . . . are you aware of any approaches to a "theory of meaning" that Kouzybski *might* have found tenable? I ask as I focus on this area.Marcus A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07428135067683418553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248946421371180705.post-54511483900407916002016-02-19T10:46:02.365-08:002016-02-19T10:46:02.365-08:00I appreciated reading your straightforward and int...I appreciated reading your straightforward and intelligible comments on Rand's philosophy, as opposed to the unreasoning animosity and willful distortions I usually encounter on the Internet. I am just beginning to investigate Korzybski myself, having just read a popularization of his semantics in S.I. Hayakawa's Language in Action, so will refrain from any comments on his philosophy.<br /><br />I take issue with two of your statements about Rand's philosophy. First, you claim that, "She elevates to sacred doctrine an extreme individualism that takes little to no account, even scorns, the social matrix upon which any individual human accomplishment is based." Quite the opposite is the case, and I would challenge you to find any statement or incident in her novels which supports this view. Atlas Shrugged consistently dramatizes and champions the interdependence of rational people based on voluntary cooperation. Dagney Taggart, for instance, acknowledges her debt to the scientists and engineers whose theoretical work makes her railroad possible, just as Rand acknowledged her debt to Aristotle. What Rand's philosophy opposes is involuntary interdependence, where individual accomplishment is assumed to be a societal asset regardless of the will of its originator. This assumption is what causes the strike in the novel.<br /><br />Secondly, your characterization of identity contains a dogmatism that Rand explicitly eschewed. She understood that a concept (which a word represents)is based on man's potentially fallible and incomplete perception of reality, and therefore is always subject to correction. I quote from Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (a must if you haven't read it): "Concepts stand for specific kinds of existents, including all the characteristics of these existents, observed and not-yet-observed, known and unknown. It is crucially important to grasp the fact that a concept is an 'open-end' classification which includes the yet-to-be-discovered characteristics of a given group of existents. All of man's knowledge rests on that fact." (pp. 65-66 of the expanded second edition, 1990).<br /><br />One criticism I had of Hayakawa's account of semantics is the lack of any discussion of concepts as opposed to words. As I read Korzybksi, I shall be on the lookout for his theory of concepts and their validity.<br /><br />Bruce MarrBruce Marrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05926795925232489860noreply@blogger.com