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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. ...and a few other movies as well, LOL
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  4.  @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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  5. 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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  6. the alternate is dying young, so getting old isn't so terrible
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  7. 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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  8. Also people who must uniquely name the the various mixtures of colored house and wall paint
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  9. yes, in color theory, black and white (the absence of light or presence of it) are called "values."
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  10. search for it on YT, it's been done - great idea!
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  11. A predictive "near history" novel: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (2007)
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  12. Have you ever moved a really heavy and HUGE rock? How did you do it?
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  13. 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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  14. AND - the babble fish translator!
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. yes, the direct object in all Indo-European languages makes them "commanding."
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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. Maybe all autistic kids could learn lojban and it would satisfy their tendency to be super logical?
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  27. 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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  28. yes, "timeless time" is the concept - because time is relative to the experience of it.
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  29. 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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  30. "42" or "ThoughtyTwo" ?
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  31. A guy named "Arthur E. Carpenter" has wood furniture in the Smithsonian, LOL
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  32. I've heard that Finnish is pretty tricky.
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  33. I enjoy your 'ramblings." Informative, specific and your selection of what is significant is fascinating. Please - ramble on!
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  34. happens at 12:49 - it's the Coolest EXAMPLE of an AUDITORY ILLUSION !!!!
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. You could copyright you name then?
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. ...and humor. Learning a culture's sense of humor is the last part of learning a language, IMHO.
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  44. 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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  45.  @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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49. Cha? Chaz? Then you could work on the Chassis or dance, LOL
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  50. 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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