Can language describe reality?| Nick Enfield | Reason with Science | Evolution | Math | Culture

[@akincelebi]

I've never thought about language so deeply before. But language is the expression of society's wishes and desires.

[@thestellarator815]

"The map isn't the territory" I think is a good quote for what Nick is talking about.

[@ReasonwithScience]

Indeed, you got it :)

[@marcelug1970]

Fascinating ideas, I hadn't thought about language in this depth before.

[@collinswesonga4740]

interesting ideas

[@cricketlive1874]

Great job

[@zobko]

Great interview, thank you!

[@ReasonwithScience]

:)

[@sunny_official-05]

Spreading good knowledge & nice interviews,❤️

[@JeremyHelm]

9:49 context adaptive system

[@JeremyHelm]

38:09 it's not the imagining, it's the agreeing

[@JeremyHelm]

42:23 binding to brute reality

[@JeremyHelm]

45:31 language design

[@JeremyHelm]

57:07 I'm so glad that he uses the phrase 'direct your attention' 57:43 & patterns of reasoning

[@JeremyHelm]

1:02:51 accounting for linguistic determinism

[@ErenYeager-mj7tv]

Nice Video

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

The Feminine Princip and the Masculine Princip, is the most basic in our Eternal Life-and Organism-Structure. It is Also the Principles for Sending and Receiving, which is the most basic in all and any Communication. The Circuit-Princip is Also very Basic, a Developing-Circuit holds six Developing-Zones, Plants- and Animal-Kingdom is the two first. First words and word-bendings is mainly warnings, (Campell-monkeys) Esperanto is the International Language, and is a Mathematical Language, Might be common in about 500 year from now, It will be the International Language for about two tusind years or more. Gradually the Ability to Communicate by 'whole-psychic korrespondance', in direct Sending and Receiving Living Pictures will grow. In first fase, 'half-psychic-korrespondance', via medie, is also a part of the further development. Dream experiences may give a slightly idea, about the nature of this dynamic livable way of direct korrespondance in life-Pictures. Yaeh, in the principle Language can explain reality, but it depends on understanding the basic of the Language and the reality, and has to do with experience and development.

[@carmelpule8493]

The vocal box or chords has nothing to do with language as the general overall relation between frequency in a sound is not contained in the carrier of a radio wave but in the modulation and so one can play music in a higher octave as when a man baritone speaks the same sentence as when a woman soprano speaks and while the carrier is higher the same information is transmitted, Language is an agreed written or spoken symbol, which becomes a kernel in the human mind so that when it is heard or seen in a picture form, then the human mind can compare reality with the kernels in the human minds and come to the conclusion by filtering out the information, May be the morse code signals or the code to open a safe is a type of language which needs to agree on the same " kernel" hence recognition is possible without the real thing being present. Language becomes a universe of illusions and a model of reality and a very bad model at that, Mathematica's is also a model or a language of reality. Morse code is a language of ant other language. Music is a language of emotions,' and sounds Pictures on a screen is a language transforming reality Statues are a language of reality or models of it, and colour add a flavour to the effect, The written symbol of the spoken version is an illogical noise or shape unlike the numerals where the vaule of a number is written in the shape of the number as in , 0 1, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 the original numbers had no rounding off and the number of corners in the symbol was the value of the number, Then a sift was associated with the symbol and this multiplied the symbol by 10 and 100 if the symbol 1 was shifted to the left Number symbols are logical and rational while language symbols are not and it was the isolation of nations that brought about so many languages and religions , and number systems before the Arabs came along and invented the zero and the other symbols shown above