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Reciprocating Conversations

Chip Eastham said in an email message:

 "I see not
 with the eye of discernment
 mistaking
 word processor images
 on my screen
 for the real word processor"

A few days later, four of us walked out into a remote cabin in
the woods. Since it has no electricity, we lit candles and an
oil lamp.

Swinton said: "Where is the 'qualia'?", referring to a recent
experiment where they grafted part of the optic nerve
of a rodent to the auditory part of the cortex, and after
the rodent grew up, it interpreted the signals as light.

I said; "Where does the software interact with the hardware?"
( I was thinking about Von Neumam's answer to the Hilbert Program.)

Swinton said; "The clever programmer thinks he knows, but the
philosopical programmer knows the question is deeper."

I said; "is Broca's area the 'true word processor'".

Ernie said; "But it is the Gestalt. That is where everything
connects."

Dennis said, "The name is not the thing."

I said "what do you mean?".

Dennis said; "The path that can be named is not the true path."

I said; "You have made a bridge between Korzybski and Lao Tzu!"

(not knowing it was Hayakawa who may really have said it.)


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