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I’m thinking about how we think about what is true.
Now, I love words. Though apparently the way I think about them is odd, since I lack an internal monologue.
I honestly thought the use of “inner voice” in literature was a device. It’s a very useful device.
I don’t have one.
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Now, I love words. Though apparently the way I think about them is odd, since I lack an internal monologue.
I honestly thought the use of “inner voice” in literature was a device. It’s a very useful device.
I don’t have one.
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Instead my mind works though a series of interconnected sort of clouds of ideas, one example (because I saw it used) was “think of a field”.
I think of all sorts of things, clearly context is important here.
Electrical, magnetic, expertise, or cows may feature.
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I think of all sorts of things, clearly context is important here.
Electrical, magnetic, expertise, or cows may feature.
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But those things aren’t there as words.
Not being said or as text, they’re like waves of fieldy stuff which can collapse into a point...be it muddy, dusty, grass, cows, wheat, or electrons. All of which are actually sort of floaty around the concept of field.
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Not being said or as text, they’re like waves of fieldy stuff which can collapse into a point...be it muddy, dusty, grass, cows, wheat, or electrons. All of which are actually sort of floaty around the concept of field.
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Which is perhaps why I find the use or lack of use of certain simple words frustrating.
The word I find currently frustrating is:
Lie
Perhaps because the word lives in a cloud of meaning which was constructed in my mental landscape at a young age and is regarded as important.
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The word I find currently frustrating is:
Lie
Perhaps because the word lives in a cloud of meaning which was constructed in my mental landscape at a young age and is regarded as important.
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It’s a collapse point of a whole host of concepts involving belief and intent.
It has a lot of emotions and the feelings of understanding the emotions of others in the same whirling cloud of ideas.
It’s where my theory of mind lives.
The word lie is, to me, very important.
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It has a lot of emotions and the feelings of understanding the emotions of others in the same whirling cloud of ideas.
It’s where my theory of mind lives.
The word lie is, to me, very important.
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It’s got much the same mental taste as a fairy story, as evil and good.
So I have a lot of respect for the word.
It’s not one my vocal cords actually use much, the words “you lied to me” have rarely left these lips.
BUT if I see a lie being spread on social media...
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So I have a lot of respect for the word.
It’s not one my vocal cords actually use much, the words “you lied to me” have rarely left these lips.
BUT if I see a lie being spread on social media...
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I will call it.
Sometimes the person spreading the lie may believe it.
That is something I have sympathy for. People can believe lies. They can believe them passionately. That does not make the lie itself any less true.
It is itself a falsehood, a thing which is untrue.
Sometimes the person spreading the lie may believe it.
That is something I have sympathy for. People can believe lies. They can believe them passionately. That does not make the lie itself any less true.
It is itself a falsehood, a thing which is untrue.
By using euphemism such as “misinformation” (which lives in a very unhappy cloud of concepts in my mind, it has a blunt razors feel) we are making lies safer.
It’s like giving them a coating of slightly sweet tasting acceptability.
Certain lies should not be made safer.
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It’s like giving them a coating of slightly sweet tasting acceptability.
Certain lies should not be made safer.
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One of these lies I will use an image of below (Twitter algorithms are playing silly buggers).
This is a lie told over and over.
We failed to address it for years, in part due to semantic concerns, and concerns about technical accuracy.
This misunderstands the nature of lies.
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This is a lie told over and over.
We failed to address it for years, in part due to semantic concerns, and concerns about technical accuracy.
This misunderstands the nature of lies.
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Successful lies are simple.
That’s why they are successful.
The truth is often huge complex, it comes with huge baggage of ifs and buts and caveats...
Lies are simple.
Lies can be around the world before the truth has its laces tied, it’s not decided which shoes to wear.
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That’s why they are successful.
The truth is often huge complex, it comes with huge baggage of ifs and buts and caveats...
Lies are simple.
Lies can be around the world before the truth has its laces tied, it’s not decided which shoes to wear.
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The truth needs help.
That’s why science is so absurdly difficult at times.
Lies have it easy.
One reason is that we don’t like to call out lies. It’s a nasty (another childhood word there) thing to do, to call someone a liar.
But we are out of the playground now.
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That’s why science is so absurdly difficult at times.
Lies have it easy.
One reason is that we don’t like to call out lies. It’s a nasty (another childhood word there) thing to do, to call someone a liar.
But we are out of the playground now.
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And I know others may not agree.
And that won’t decrease my respect for them.
But I think it’s worth nailing my colours to the mast occasionally.
To draw a line, in the sand, and firmly say which side I stand.
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And that won’t decrease my respect for them.
But I think it’s worth nailing my colours to the mast occasionally.
To draw a line, in the sand, and firmly say which side I stand.
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