RealiTTY: Language and Reality

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Language is the medium by which we transmit our thoughts. The language we use to communicate does fundamentally affect how we see the World, language structures thought to atleast the same degree that it reflects thought. For the most part, we live in a world constructed by language. What and how we see the world is tied directly to how we describe it. Linguistic relativity was first suggested by Edward Sapir and Benamin Lee Whorf when they noticed that differences in language reflect the different views of different people.

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[tvswnet]

You may not have a linguistic background educationally, but I do (graduate degree in Linguistics)...and I no longer believe my own lectures from 2 years ago. My favorite: Structural Linguistics. Structural Linguistics is the more/less the study of language without the people...so just some sort of potential language for no particular reason...what a dumb "science!" Because the utterance is the observable part of linguistic "communication," its symbolism ends up superceding what it symbolizes.

[HoloplexProductions]

@tvswnet Isn't that a great feeling though, when you supersede your old ways of thinking? I can barely bring myself to listen to these old videos of mine because they are rather rough cuts of loose ideas I had at the time. Are you familiar with zoosemiotics or object-oriented ontology at all?

[tvswnet]

@HoloplexProductions Yes, but I had a sort of "awakening," a year ago (rather abrupt and unexpected) and haven't been able to return to my career as a linguist and educator (of education, culture studies, and of course language) since I no longer believe in those "sciences" as now manifested in our societies. I especially no longer want to participate in government programs or academia (it's ALL political, these days)--thus, I'm broke and growing my own veggies, for now 8-)

[HoloplexProductions]

@tvswnet awesome, yeah I share the same concern with academia. I'm broke also, yay! :)

[Holographicillusion]

@Holoplexproductions can you please tell me where i can find the transcripts of your videos of RealiTTY.

[HoloplexProductions]

@Holographicillusion realitty.tk should still work, else you can search on scribd for RealiTTY

[volatilekoala]

Thanks for this video. It really helped me understand this subject better! Really, thanks a million!

[TheWayshowerTube]

Thank you for the great explanation.

[HoloplexProductions]

@tonyfalca I think it's "Metasphere" - bit . ly/s3Spau