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Hi! I want to demonstrate a tenet of postmodernism. I'm wondering whether you'd agree with the following paragraph, even though my words aren't your words: Yo
by myWindoonn 8y ago
Hi! I want to demonstrate a tenet of postmodernism.
I'm wondering whether you'd agree with the following paragraph, even though my words aren't your words:
You and I are exchanging words right now. Those words don't really mean anything. Meanings are private to each mind, and everybody decodes words and interprets them as having different meanings. Those meanings, or perhaps those concepts, within each mind will give rise to some sort of worldview (or POV for short) which gives everybody their own uniquely-colored glasses through which the world's stage, players, narratives, and behaviors appear filtered, giving rise to new meanings and possibilities.
This paragraph was hand-written and spontaneous, but I think that you'd nonetheless agree with it because it is an attempt to capture common societal ideas about how English encodes meanings, and thus I think that most English-speakers will decode it to predictable concepts, and I think further that folks who have studied philosophy, not just postmodernism, will find concepts in it similar to the concepts that I've imagined.
Why this is fascinating: I think that this understanding of language decoding as a strange loop is totally overlooked by this crowd, but it could completely overhaul how giants in the field are read, in particular Hofstadter.
- ThomPete 8y agoWe exchange words that we learned the meaning of both literally (by dictionary) and by concept (by meaning). We both are brough up in a context where we understand the meaning of "the desktop" as a metaphor for computer UI unless (unless you haven't learned that then you think it's the other physical desktop) See https://medium.com/swlh/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-at-computers-9feadc741f7f https://medium.com/swlh/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-... where I explore that. In other words, we are using language as a way to communicate experiences of phenomena (an apple or a painting or a movie) but our experiences will never be exactly the same and we will never be referring to exactly the same but it's good enough statistically to be "a pattern" So yeah I guess I agree if I understand you correctly.