Comments by "Misty Culous" (@mistyculous9644) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. Researchers who love historical facts are fascinating, thanks
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  2. Do you have "techniques" to help you remember your dreams? Figured out a way to remember longer dreams back when there were video tapes. I practiced remembering dreams by looking at the last scenes of movies I had previously seen when awake, but didn't remember these movies very well. Watching movie ending scenes allowed me to practice to "reconstruct" the whole movie - because obviously the memory of that movie was in me somewhere. It Then I'd watch the movie to see how I'd done. Doing this today with digital movies has been useful for dream recall now. So I often look at the last few ending scenes when re-watching a movie I've seen previously. By doing this, I've been able to remember almost "movie length" dreams, even dreams that were very non-sequential - which has been really interesting.
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  3. An old friend admitted to me that he never saw green in a sunset previously to me pointing it out to him one time. Now he sees greens all the time in sunsets!
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  4.  @SilverKnight16  I think this word "camaraderie" that came to your mind matches the best. What came to my mind in Spanish was: Afficionado
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  5. A friend used learning a new musical instrument as a way to recover his considerable intelligence quotient after a serious accident where a head injury limited his brain usefulness.
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  6.  @daxincarnate9381  Perhaps read the really old book: Language, Thought & Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf ? Did you learn music notation? Music is its own language, especially when played with others who must listen to play with you harmoniously. Different cultures have different symbolic meanings, so the translation is interesting - for colors, animals for instance. Purple means "royal" in Western culture, whereas in Asian it's golden yellow that means royal.
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  7. I'm dusting off my old SciFi novels. Anyone have recommendations of awesome prophetic stuff or authors they have read?
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  8. As Edward de Bono was proud of coining a new, useful concept: "lateral thinking." Meaning there is a whole category of thinking strategies and practices that were different from logic. (But lateral thinking practices are just as effective and useful as logic.)
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  9. Pre-crime exists in Los Angeles, CA in the form of a relationship map for street gangs that have police stopping "possible" miscreants just because they know each other.
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  10. now you can go into selling water catchment tanks, LOL
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  11.  @raymondrainwater9803  Learn about them firsthand by coming to Hawaii, where many, many people use them.
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  12.  @AngelaMerici12  yes, education really sucks in the USA
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  13. Yes, great author - (sometimes lousy translations.) Many classic SciFi predictors could not be mentioned: Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, Phillip Jose Farmer, Rodger Zelazny, Alfred Bester, Ursula LeGuinn, Frederick Pohl, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Niven & Pournelle, Philip K. Dick, David Brin, Poul Anderson, Jack Vance, Olaf Stapleton...and I could just go on for another three paragraphs...
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  14.  @MrYoungzay  exactly why geniuses need to study communication, negotiation and presentation skills. They might benefit from forgoing historic content - because our culture is now changing so fast that books print what's obsolete
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  15. by Bickerton: "Adam's Tongue"- discusses how language began and the various theories involved. Also the same author wrote another book that's sort of a travel log of Creole languages called: Bastard Tongues
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  16. After reading "Language, Thought & Reality" by Whorf... It was the first book where I could understand the words, but it took me much study to wrap my head around its content. Hopi verbs have TWO forms of their tense, named: "Objective" and "Subjective." The 1st "Objective" verb category means: What people together can witness moment by moment. (So if you can see something behind your friend, you had to use the Subjective tense.) What you personally perceive doesn't exist for everyone just because you perceive it - as "Reality" does in English. 2nd: The "subjective" verb form: Whoever listens will have to believe your report - despite what you say not existing for them. With this "scientific objectivity," Hopi might seem like a serious language of physicists and mindfulness...But in everyday life, I heard that Hopi people often laughably tease each other by saying entertaining, wild stuff they supposedly verify is true for them. If you wonder...how do "tenses" happen in Hopi? Huge categories of verb modifiers - modifiers that Whorf said gave a unique sense of relative time - not "factual time." Example: (as I understood the book) if you wanted to say: "Usually, I intend to run every morning for my strength, please join me," A Hopi literal word-for-word example translation with Hopi sentence structure would be: (subjective form:) I'm intending, I'm running, (then verb modified words:) daily, rhythmically, strongly, dawning and (still subjective form) we are running (verb modifier:) together. For awhile I tried to use English words and re-order them the way I understood Hopi does - it really stretched my brain!
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  17.  @brianjeffrey1913  Try speaking/listening to people from New Mexico, USA. They speak slower Spanish than anyone else, IMHO.
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  18. Guessing you're goal oriented. I'm not sure if you really want the attention span of a goldfish?
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  19. yes, I heard that Einstein's first wife was also responsible for many of his theories too. She didn't want the limelight - in that era, women weren't recognized anyway.
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  20. Yes, people can legally lie. Unless they put a contract in writing, they don't have to keep their promises.
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  21. yes, the way your tongue rests or pushes upward in your mouth has something to do with how wide your cheeks end up, etc.
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  22.  @davidp2827  That color thing you described - it's called the "Stroop test." Yes, commonly, a bunch of people get freaked out because they reflexively READ the color the word says and IGNORE the color the word is. The Stroop test proves that responses slow down when the color of the word doesn't match what the word says.
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  23. The best book on this gender differences in speaking style that I've read was: "Talking 9-5" By Deborah Tannen, Ph.d Linguistics. So - there are exceptions to every categorical generalization, of course. As a female, I physically I did not "fit into" any group because of being much taller. The "female" style of speech wasn't my only choice. What shaped that in my upbringing is that most girls are programmed to be trained to pay attention to future children who need their attention by being routinely interrupted by their parents. I was allowed to focus and not interrupted as a child - like a boy. Plus, I had lots of time with a retired father. As I matured, I got that men had another speaking style culturally. So if I wanted to get along with a man in an intimate relationship and be able to communicate with him, I had better learn this male speech culture. It's tricky to know and get practice articulating what you think, when your female role is to listen to a man. A guy who constantly controls the auditory space with their own determination of topic, pace and a "ranting" sort of speaking style - challenging. How do you ever get a chance to speak when your conversationalist's speaking style forces you to make an awkward interruption to say anything? You'd tend not to talk at all. What helped me most was joining a David Bohm style dialog group (30 people or so) - During the dialog I took notes to help me remember what I wanted to contribute on the fly. This helped me learn continuity of memory - so I could be a better listener and I wasn't just repeating to myself what I wanted to say so I didn't forget it.
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  24. I heard that Edison, on his deathbed, declared that he should have cooperated with Tesla instead of fighting with him.
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  25. I've heard that either you spend time "ordering" your things or you spend time looking for them, LOL
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  26. He has Zucked all who use his platform, LOL
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  27.  @desmondwatson9079  You might enjoy a book called: Bastard Tongues By Bickerton or Bickerson. It's about how many different "Creoles" evolved in divergent places with similar simplified linguistic structures, spontaneously.
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  28. It's more than that. In the past ten years, engineers attended SciFi Conventions with the motives to conceive of new "tech" ideas that were originally invented by authors - who were termed "Imagineers." Engineers weren't so effective at imagining, but were great at logistics. To figure the logistics, you need the idea first.
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  29. I had a cat named: Needles because...well, you can imagine.
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  30. Nobody has mentioned yet who profits when people have children who cannot afford to pay for them. Urging people to have kids, even though they KNOW their kids will be in a bad situation, just ask, "Who benefits?" Strangely enough, it's the prison system that gains benefits. Eventually as an adult, prison systems profit from bad parenting, bad situations for kids and bad environments for kids to grow up in.
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  31. When I was given the intelligence test, to the tester at the time, I complained that the test involved EDU that there's no way I could have be exposed to yet because I was seven years old - which wasn't fair. My observation invented the concept of "mindware" that that point, LOL Smart people really need to learn communication and negotiation skills - otherwise, they won't be able to convey their special interests or get support for continuing their interests. How old were you when your intelligence was measured?
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  32. How can humans imagine they could understand aliens, when we can't even communicate very well with canines & felines, cetaceans, elephants, crows & octupus who are already here? Yes, I'm fascinated with the "world building" of SciFi universes. Really enjoy it when an author invents multiple languages for their characters and worlds. The solution of being shot with a 'translation vaccination" was really cool in Farscape. If there was a vaccine that could offer that now - I'd definitely want it!
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  33. yes, Bernie Madoff - yes, he made off with their money and burned it! LOL
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  34. No wonder Irish language was replaced by English then - if you couldn't say "yes," you can't agree to a contract! All of the English world runs on contracts - actual contracts and implied contracts.
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  35. You might enjoy the personality descriptive system called the "Conative Index." It calls those (who you say are "high inductive") people who want to act quickly "Quick-Start." There are three more categories of how people tend to want to do a job; people are a mixture of these four types & so are the profiles of jobs. Match the job to how someone naturally wants to do it and there are many benefits. If you teach thinking skills (not merely critical logical thinking, but parallel, lateral, strategic, design & creative thinking ability) to these highly reactive "delinquents" who don't know how to use impulse control - these "Delinquents" stop reacting and start problem solving.
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  36. Does Wren count how many children someone spawned in their computations?
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  37. Yes, it's objectionable to me also. The technology that allows these devices to "hear the wake-up word" do this by recording everything said within earshot- including everything others say in your own home, etc. Paying to have recordings made of everything I say to everyone I speak with on the phone? That's a bit much. I learned the tech behind technology that interferes with data privacy from the channel Rob Braxman Tech. He's a good teacher and has some practical solutions.
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  38. yeah, "language, thought & reality" is still an interesting book by Whorf
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  39. yes, like a "con-game. Also, remember how doctors "practice" on their patient patients.
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  40. Good point. As a shy child, my strange name gave me something to start a conversation with. Now, I imagine having an unusual name as an "Awareness Test." Using humor, I often out loud conversationally rate people on whether they passed or failed on noticing my name is "unusual" - or not. When they fail the test, their brain simplifies my name to another, more familiar, similar version of a name...which requires their assumption that I spelled my own name wrong. So, I agree with you - that's where the repeated accusation of "you're wrong" originates, and that's why I inform them when they do so that they "failed" the awareness test by assuming I'm wrong about my own name.
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  41. we already have credit scores. To add "social" to that score isn't much of a stretch.
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  42. "not going to the hospital" or " going to the hospital" are the phrases
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  43.  @mixinthebisquic1238  It's from dreams that authors imagine and get original story lines for movie scripts. Everything else is "derivative."
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  44. I think we need more words for the many unique relationships that we've evolved since we've had access to online interactions. Such as: "acquaintanceships"
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  45. What's your "flying style"? Meaning, describe how you fly - put your arms out? How do you take off up into the air?
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  46.  @daviedood2503  There's many poor people who are really smart, but they don't want to be in charge for various reasons, (some physical limits?) or they were born into a situation where it was pretty much impossible to get the necessary education, etc. to get put into the position of authority.
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  47. ​ @alaindubois1505  A potential for new friends is there - as you remember the fuzzy past of when and how you met & bonded as friends. When starting from a state of being a hermit, teaching ESL or learning a new language has put me in touch with nice people again. So many unknown, subtle elements of language include the rapport of bonding rituals, (the timing of repeating contact for instance.)
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  48. Please tell us more about how your tribal language is structured...?
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  49.  @peanutbutter9345  You might want to check out the book that offers "templates" for multi-talented people called: "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher. Also the term "multi-potentialite." Specialization happened around the 1950s - around when generalists (such as Thoughty2) became "out of style."
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  50. ​ @MrYoungzay  ...then your invention will be bought - and shelved by the competitor of your invention who has much to lose if the invention is successfully manufactured and distributed as it was designed. Your patent is only as secure as the money you can invest to defend it, unfortunately. But I don't think these sorts of injustices are limited to the USA. The French had long-term ongoing activist demonstrations every weekend in 2018-19 protesting large corporations being paid by public taxation for transitioning to "cleaner" manufacturing. This is why the "Carbon Tax" is going to happen in the USA - a similar solution. It's also why the reasons for these ongoing French demonstrations were kept out of the US news. Carbon Taxation is a corporate scam splendidly justified by pseudo-environmentalists who say it's a "Climate Change" solution - people aren't going to realize what Carbon Tax really represents because of this "doublespeak." Essentially, the Carbon Tax will be paid by the public in the form of "subsidies" to the Corporations who stand to lose out as alternative energy is developed and implemented. The Corporations who benefit, will then pass on their (subsidized) increased costs to their buyers as a business expense - so the Corporations will get double benefits. Those corporations believe they need to get paid to make the transition to "green" energy solutions. Otherwise, these big companies aren't going to allow the progress of environmentally cleaner power and manufacturing to happen. Just as they have been buying and shelving any invention threatening their business...for decades.
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  51. I like your ideas about prosody and how it carries thought groups in the breathing "measures" of music. Music to me is a separate language in itself - especially when played with others. Musicians are often more imaginative than non-musicians. They can group patterns easier when attempting to communicate their original explanations and descriptions of phenomena that's new to them. I became an artist to organize my "mind's eye" - as sort of a reverse aphantasia. For me, language didn't fit what I could imagine. Also, I had trouble when I learned to write using interchangeable phrases -- my prepositions were mixed. Mixing my prepositions was partly how I came up with new combinations in an ability to think laterally & originally. So - don't you think that longer stores carry and define context? Without a story, someone cannot design relative meaning for themselves. Stories allow for retention for their own purposes later on, IMHO. I'd love to hear more. Please find me on Brax.me
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  52. Yes, language limits our thinking as well as expands it within its own implied structure. We must deliberately "escape" from language assumptions as a thinking skill exercise if we want to go "outside" its limits. Check out: Edward de Bono's old book: "Serious Creativity." It has practical ways to get outside of linguistic limitations of every language.
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  53. ...and a few other movies as well, LOL
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  54.  @violahamilton782  yes, and this experiment of putting people in an authentic era environment of their past allowed people who had dementia recover their thinking abilities also.
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  55. IMHO, more useful than the IQ test is the "Conative Index," (by Kathy Kolbe) It measures how you want to do something, as well as your motives for doing it that way. Everyone is a mixture of four strategies: Quick start improvisers, Follow Through designers, Fact Finder researchers and Implementer physical model makers. Each of these four types can be preferred or resisted - and there's an advantage in every level, with a positive description for every level of every type. I found this test to be a much more useful predictor of how I might become involved in constructively working with others.
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  56. the alternate is dying young, so getting old isn't so terrible
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  57. Sure - except...the right/left brain division is a meme of metaphorical explanation - it's not factual, it's assigned to cultural classifications that you're reinforcing. Because of habituated learning, whatever a person is exposed to becomes commonplace - no matter how much or a lack of whatever qualities are present. Brains adapt. You might enjoy a linguist named "Bickerton" He wrote "Adam's Tongue" - about the origin of language and "Bastard Tongues" - about the commonalities of Creole in many different locations, which he implies could be how languages evolved.
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  58. Also people who must uniquely name the the various mixtures of colored house and wall paint
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  59. yes, in color theory, black and white (the absence of light or presence of it) are called "values."
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  60. search for it on YT, it's been done - great idea!
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  61. A predictive "near history" novel: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (2007)
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  62. Have you ever moved a really heavy and HUGE rock? How did you do it?
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  63. Also from what I read, motive counts in Hopi; speaking brings thoughts into the now - why you're communicating is notable; i,e:, you'd take care to speak of corn growing always in a positive way - because sustenance counts.
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  64. AND - the babble fish translator!
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  65. An eight page story by Borges about just this same topic: https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Funes_the_Memorious I'm remembering the title of the story was translated to English as "Smoke of Memories." This story gets you thinking about what it would be like for you personally to remember everything that happens to you.
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  66. Bob Dylan was awarded for being a great poet, though most poets only get jobs telling others they can't make any money being a poet.
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  67. Yes, I've always enjoyed dictionaries that narrated the foundations of where words came from originally before they ended up being the word they are today. Particularly I find it fascinating words that imitate or sort of sound like what they name, such a bee buzzing, popcorn popping, sighing, etc.
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  68.  @sal_strazzullo  there is no "Law of Attraction." It's a brain Science thing called RAS - your "important list" that you tend to notice so it doesn't fly over your radar
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  69. yes, pretty tricky to repair a carburetor, if you don't know the names of those thingamawillies. The first part of learning something is learning the unique "Shop-talk" terms for it.
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  70. Yes, words for emotions really have me miffed. We need more words for emotional states. It's as if the catch-all names for emotions that you mention were deliberately designed to confuse. For instance, the word: jealousy. Notice how common it is for people to use "jealous" when it is actually "envious" that really is happening for them. Jealousy implies there is a being to be jealous of; envy is when you desire or aspire to emulate having the qualities or possessions another person has that you do not (yet) have. Jealousy seems in itself to be a catch-all word. In my experience, jealousy is really a catch-22 (a book/movie reference; it means whichever one you choose between the two, you exclude the other; both are distasteful.) ) between an unsatisfied desire for privacy and a fearful loneliness about being excluded, as well as misdirected anger. Why doesn't the word "jealousy" helpfully reflect those emotions? (Maybe I never got how much jealousy is so different for others.)
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  71. some people wonder if Tesla was a "high functioning Autistic" person. The ability of Tesla to imagine his inventions in 3D and perform experiments on these inventions in his head without building physical models was a big indicator.
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  72. yes, the direct object in all Indo-European languages makes them "commanding."
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  73. IMHO, keys should be masculine, because they fit into a hole, right? Why are a boot and a shoe differently fem and masc? These designations, all male/female designations to me are completely arbitrary.
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  74. Yes, English needs more words to describe balance and movement. I discovered that attempting to teach easier physical motion. This made me a pro at describing motion over time as I shaped the possibility into education for my students. You've "threatened" to show us how assumptions in English unbalances us. I think what you mentioned has to do with the direct object, but that's in all of the indo-European languages, not merely English. Please tell me more - how does that work?
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  75. Learning to say: "How do I say....?" Or "What is the word for.....? Then you can point to stuff and the person will give you the word for it.
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  76. Maybe all autistic kids could learn lojban and it would satisfy their tendency to be super logical?
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  77. yes, most smart people aren't exposed to constructive the "need" to learn teaching and communication skills - and negotiation and psychological abilities. Smart people tend to specialize - then they cannot explain their work to anyone!
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  78. yes, "timeless time" is the concept - because time is relative to the experience of it.
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  79. it's called: "pre-crime" and it's already being done in Los Angeles, CA Works by relationship mapping those people who know confirmed gang members.
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  80. "42" or "ThoughtyTwo" ?
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  81. A guy named "Arthur E. Carpenter" has wood furniture in the Smithsonian, LOL
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  82. I've heard that Finnish is pretty tricky.
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  83. I enjoy your 'ramblings." Informative, specific and your selection of what is significant is fascinating. Please - ramble on!
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  84. happens at 12:49 - it's the Coolest EXAMPLE of an AUDITORY ILLUSION !!!!
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  85. I don't think that's possible...but then I'm an artist. There's also a Darwinian variant that is present (mostly in women) whose relatives are color-blind in varied ways. These women can technically see more colors than most people. Maybe you're one of those people without realizing it?
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  86. record that music!! Dreaming is a perfect way of composing music - it ends up totally original too, even if in the dream you "already know" the tune.
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  87. you might want to research ADD Adult Deficit Disorder. It's a brain thing - your thinking ability doesn't activate until some threshold of intensity happens.
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  88. In brain Science it's called RAS - Reticulated Activating System. It's when you have topics or concerns "on your list" so it helps you notice them instead of them flying under your radar.
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  89. Social skills are learnable - think of them as "acting" or "foreign culture" skills: reading body & face mannerisms, using vocal inflection & body language signals. Become aware of implied (double) meanings through studying what makes people laugh - it's fun too!
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  90. You could copyright you name then?
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  91. Humans can see three colors (besides dark and light) Cyan, Magenta & yellow. There's a shrimp that can see I think...17 different colors and their variations. Including infrared, for instance. I can't even conceive of seeing that many colors... If reincarnation exists, I wanna be that shrimp for awhile, LOL
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  92. Because it's a 'throwaway' cost, smart people don't make the time for educating others (unless they get "assigned" a parental role, which many refuse because they don't want to spend the time being a distracted parent.) The ability to teach is a separate (expensive) skill, especially rare in this specialized world...and communication skills are not often taught in schools - specifically. Our culture is screwed if smart people don't invest in teaching or mentoring - forget spawning kids. Maybe if teachers were paid more & were socially more highly valued...?
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  93. ...and humor. Learning a culture's sense of humor is the last part of learning a language, IMHO.
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  94. yes, because smarter people can often think of alternate ways to do something, then via Cognitive Bias, they find it trickier to choose when there are more options.
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  95.  @giantscruffdog2760  study playing a musical instrument? ( Music I believe is a 2nd language! From asking for observations from people as part of my work, those who were musicians were able to give the most answers.)
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  96. Yes, Robert Heinlein's book is useful to read to expand your idea of language, especially if you only know English and no other languages.
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  97.  @PolyMadd  Marriages go to hell for many reasons, but a big one is a lack of communication skills, for sure. I was in a Dialog group, and at one point I timed how long each woman spoke, comparing it to how long men spoke, (without being obvious about doing it.) Then at the end of the dialog meeting, I asked everyone to think back about how this comparison went. Most men perceived that women talked more often and longer than they did. But it wasn't the case, verified by my actual measurements. The group was somewhat shocked when I showed my notes, which made for an interesting conversation about Confirmation Bias.
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  98. I just re-read "Native Tongue" by Suzette Haden Elgin. (who invented La'adan.) Haden merely discussed mostly the process of developing La'adan, without having her characters speak it. Wasn't clear to me if La'adan itself had this idealistic effect...or if the improvements for the women came from the exercise of a sense of purpose.
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  99. Cha? Chaz? Then you could work on the Chassis or dance, LOL
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  100. One of my fave SciFi authors has been A.E. Van Vogt. Famous story: "The Weapons Shop of Isher." From the 1940s, he always had a "movie-like" writing style that translated well into current screenplay styles, scene-for-scene.
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  101. Wired in flexible ways!
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  102. 42 is the answer to "Life, the universe and everything" in the series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh, you just must read it to get the joke reference.
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  103. Call them "Gals" ? I consider myself a "Gal-friend" and my partner my "Guy-friend" because we're too mature to be "boys and girls."
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  104. Only way you can do that is to become too poor to get their attention.
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  105. there are now special glasses for people who are colorblind that allow them to see the differences. Could ask your optometrist about them?
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  106.  @thefinalroman  Tesla looked as if he starved to death
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  107. I'd be interested in hearing which languages have which correlations you're describing. Please? English for me is fraught with divisive opinion. Because whenever anyone opens their mouth, they seem to be defining the nature of "reality." - "The way things "Are." In order to say "from my point of view" IMHO, or I see it like this: You have to "frame" what follows. I want a verb tense for "I'm saying this from my own perceptual orientation."
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  108. SciFi writers have better get busy doing some more imagineering. All the engineers were going to the SciFi Conventions to get ideas for future projects - now engineers and product design folks are starving for ideas! Got any half-baked ideas or topics that should be in a SciFi novel - or invented soon?
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  109. yes, humor is the last thing people learn when they become proficient in a language
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  110. Can you spell out for us some of the ways how Zuni think differently as a culture?
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  111. What I mean is, can you tell us anything about grammar of Zuni language? Do you notice character traits that your Zuni friends seem to share? For instance, I believe the direct object structure in English is partly responsible for Indo-European people thinking mechanistically and manipulatively, (with both positive and negative effects.) It's because the direct object structure separates the "noun" and has the noun "acting on" the direct object.
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  112. Good one! Maybe you'd enjoy Steven Pinker's "The Stuff Of Thought" ?
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  113.  @dr.stronk9857  LOL. undoubtedly also you might be interested in: "Lateral thinking" by Edward de Bono
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  114. Bucky Fuller didn't write SciFi books - he invented stuff.
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  115.  @TheNightWatcher1385  There's always another way. Selective disinformation is effective, and passively nonviolent. Binge-watch "Rob Braxman Tech" for more effective but peaceful activism strategies.
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  116. Studying thinking as a skill (via Edward de Bono) gave me "mindware" tools. What has made you smarter that you did (or plan to do) during your life?
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  117. Hardwired, genetic smarts are somewhat of a curse. You don't have the spawn the kids to teach & communicate the benefits of your experience & smarts. But you do have to learn teaching skills.
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  118. "Smarter" people with higher quality intelligence hardware - we desperately need the software updates of communication skills & thinking skills - more than anyone. Otherwise, how will we communicate our amazing specializations & discoveries? Smart people who need communication skills are abandoned in schools, pretty much. The big thing smart kids learn to do is to criticize and judge - from being judged.
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