Post by dsmith on Jan 4, 2013 5:09:55 GMT -5
Definitions
Experience: a collective term for any visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, or bodily sensation (or any pattern of such sensations, including conscious thoughts)
Mind: another assumed to be like me in that it can experience
Communicate: to reproduce an experience in another mind, at least accurately enough for the purpose at hand
Language: a system of signs that refer to experiences in order to facilitate communication
Intention: the experience the presenter had and now aims to transmit via language and other tools (images, video, diagrams, mockups, etc.)
Interpretation: the experience evoked in the listener by the language, etc.
- If intention and interpretation match, we call the communication "successful"; in all other cases we call it "unsuccessful")-
Logic: rules for how statements in language can be transformed into phrasings that refer to the same experiences but are easier to interpret
Logical deduction: Transforming statements into phrasings that are easier to interpret
These are just some proposed definitions.
Notice that under this framework the problem with modern physics is that the physicists fail to communicate (i.e., speak nonsense). There is no intention in the first place, so there are myriad possibilities for the interpretation. The physicists even admit this.
For now I leave the more detailed implications for physics and other fields for future posts or debate.
Experience: a collective term for any visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, or bodily sensation (or any pattern of such sensations, including conscious thoughts)
Mind: another assumed to be like me in that it can experience
Communicate: to reproduce an experience in another mind, at least accurately enough for the purpose at hand
Language: a system of signs that refer to experiences in order to facilitate communication
Intention: the experience the presenter had and now aims to transmit via language and other tools (images, video, diagrams, mockups, etc.)
Interpretation: the experience evoked in the listener by the language, etc.
- If intention and interpretation match, we call the communication "successful"; in all other cases we call it "unsuccessful")-
Logic: rules for how statements in language can be transformed into phrasings that refer to the same experiences but are easier to interpret
Logical deduction: Transforming statements into phrasings that are easier to interpret
These are just some proposed definitions.
Notice that under this framework the problem with modern physics is that the physicists fail to communicate (i.e., speak nonsense). There is no intention in the first place, so there are myriad possibilities for the interpretation. The physicists even admit this.
For now I leave the more detailed implications for physics and other fields for future posts or debate.