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This comment feels like a deepity[0] to me. Saying anything at all is "to deal with words". Discussing anything at all about your internal state is "to deal wi
by akavi 3y ago
This comment feels like a deepity[0] to me.
Saying anything at all is "to deal with words". Discussing anything at all about your internal state is "to deal with... consciousness".
Yes, it is deeply human to put to words internal thoughts and share them with others (that's what I'm doing in this comment, after all). But there's nothing special about dreams in that regard.
And unlike most ideas we attempt to communicate, dreams are by their nature fragmentary and illogical (or perhaps "pre-logical" is better phrasing). While humans love imputing meaning and profundity to obscurant musings (whole academic careers have been built on that fact), that doesn't mean they are actually meaningful and/or profound.
[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:deepity https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:deepity
- gverrilla 3y agoI must admit I stopped abruptly. It's not a complete thought, and the last phrase was "aborted", for which I'm sorry: I lack the mastery I would want with English language to continue, considering the complexity of the subjects I tried to touch upon and my broad experience thinking, reading, writing and dialoging about them. Nevertheless, I stand by what I said, although it's "poor", but right now I'm not willing to debate. The best I can do is to point out to authors like S. Freud and the surrealists, so you can perhaps see deeper into my comment, and wish you the best! :)
- Lammy 3y agoWhat an awful anti-intellectual neologism. People on HN love to talk about rubber-ducking their code, but do it for your dreams and get made fun of. Unless you’re a famous writer :)
- alexvoda 3y agoI do not agree at all that the word "deepity" is in any way anti-intellectual. It is an intellectual stance to try and filter what truly is profound from what merely appears to be or what merely elicits the same emotions. Unfortunately our current world is flooded with substance-less garbage that masquerades as something more. We are still in the age of gurus, of the blind leading the blind for profit, as we have always been since forming societies, but now we are in the epoch of web scalability, where the reach of any guru has been amplified to engulf the whole world. Training oneself to be able to recognise whether a message actually contains any knowledge or whether it is word salad that produces the same emotions is more important than ever.