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The meaning is understood bc the oratory has changed in step with now. Understanding is better than knowledge.

In some way's I think it's easier, in that etymology has no real meaning in an oral tradition bc they only have to understand what it means now.

The opperative word here is 'appeared/apparent' time can't slow down and a generous ghost can't interact with our world; whatever you think you remember has no basis in the reality of the moment, due to the way we automatically rewrite every memory in the context of the 'now' in which it was remembered IOW everytime we remember something, it's meaning is tweaked to suit our current mood. The software can only run on the appropriate hardware.

So is a mirror, for instance why is the image back to front instead of upside-down (a paraphrased question by Richard Feynman.). Except a Spanish bee wouldn't understand a good old British bee; metaphysical your way outta that?

He also famously refused to write thing's down. The topic title was meant as a metaphor, the juxtaposition of the rate of change in a world that supposedly understands what 'the sword of Damocles' means. Writ large in the opening of Will Self's speech that I linked to, in which he explains the value of him not writing his speech. The word gay for instance, in my lifetime, has changed meaning quite radically; if my grandchildren read a book of the sixties that suggested the pope was gay, etymology would be of little help if their teacher was biased enough to want the pope to be homosexual, to put the cat among the chickens, perhaps. Not at all, it's simply a sign that my thoughts are hard to capture in this format and that I'm quite stupid and slow witted. I'm sorry that your biased perception of me, makes you so angry; but are you aware that you don't have to read anything I say? It's not the first time though is it, please stop peppering my topic's with your personal attacks.

Bolded mine, How do you know? Have you actually had an NDE (if you say yes, I'll now that you're lying? That's the exact antipode of your previous argument, like I siad "the wiring is complicated, the neuron is as simple as it gets".

That's my point, understanding a complicated concept is far more likely to be taught effectively through the spoken word, than the written version of knowledge, bc that version is always at least one generation out of date; and I think that might be the tumor of societies, since every empire in history has failed, for some reason. My apologies for my lack of verbosity/eloquence, for some reason god didn't give me that gift...🙄

Only that every coin has a flip side...

More than everyting I said/wrote?

Does that mean you understood everything I wrote/said?

And that's why it's wrong, there is no simple explanation of any experiment; look into a mirror and explain why it's back to front instead of upside-down?

Is it really that obvious? For instance, Socrates wasn't a fan. Really, doesn't that dismiss causality, in a fundamental way?

Well this is spooky, I came across this keynote speech by Will Self, today: Well worth a listen, he even point's to the type of metric I meant (far more eloquently) @iNow They're the same thing, just amplified again. It's a shame this will be merged. We're very clever apes with a penchant for breaking boundaries and the written word has no more value than the spoken word, in advancing our understanding of the available knowledge. I dismiss the idea that printing democratised anything in any meaningful way, bc for democracy to be effective we're not all reading from the same hymn sheet...

Really? I think knowledge is far more likely to be properly understood, down the ages, using word of mouth; text traps meaning in the moment it's written...

The start. It accelerated the value of the written word, over the spoken word; in essence it got us from worrying about what the next village was up too relevant to ours, to worrying about what the Mongolians are up to.

So, is that a yes to horns? So, is 'that' a yes to horns? And yet again we circle back to the only truth we can have about this question, mine...😉

So if I was a satanist, would I have horns? 🙂 "Blue pill or red pill?" Besides that's an oxymoron? Education helps, if it's teaching critical thinking, bc then we can see the adverts and attempts to train our thinking.

Are we better off having invented the printing press? I don't want to block the rabbit hole, so I'll leave it there for know and flesh thing's out as and when.

If the authors of the bible planned to put their secrets into a bastardised version of their words, that's also translated into a language they couldn't possibly know about, using a number system they couldn't understand; then I guess there really is a God, who knew... 😇

What about, what is the meaning of 'my' life? I spent year's, "42", figuring out that one, bloody computer's were no help... 😉

If you've never been driven to eat out of a bin, I doubt your taste buds have tingled quite so much...

Says who?

It does for me, YMMV...

But none of them thought about why... I just like to think about it, I don't care why. Your purpose may vary... 😉

That's where you're missing my point, Merleau-Ponty I think was just pointing out the difficulty in disentangling the mind from the body and not that the body thinks. The "brave new world" is just describing our modern world, with extreme prescience given when it was writen. The point being we can't engineer a safe world for everybody/thing (everything is on something's menu), it will always fail bc those not included in the plan will find a way to beat the plan; in the context of the OP, "shit happens"... What about those that can't? Not everyone can afford a good education, let alone a hooker... 😉