RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Diplomatic Communication Topics

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

http://www.firedocs.com/carey/asif.html

 

That is an article on reification and personal reality constructs.  This is a pretty good

summary of the use of filters in language.   Note the references to virtual

reality.  These are a bit strained so let's not make that mistake when

talking about abstractions such as a "virtual embassy".  That is exactly

how we got in trouble earlier.  I met Leary and my impression was

his essential skill was salesmanship, not technology.

 

HumanML is nothing more and nothing less than a system by which

users can create and agree to the constructs through which they will

interprets signs, symbols, and signals etc within a context of

communicating entities.  As such, it is itself, a set of signs, 

symbols, and signals and  subject to the same traps of

internalization and mistakes of believing the word is the thing.

 

Don't confuse convenient abstractions for manipulating objects

with the objects.

 

len