Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "Great Russian literature is difficult to translate | Sean Kelly and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. This a fairly long quote from Terence McKenna. I think it's worth posting because he had some great insights into language: Information is lose on planet three. Something unusual is going on here. The world is not made of quarks, electromagnetic wave packets, or the thoughts of God. The world is made of language. Language is replicating itself in DNA, which, at the evolutionary apex, is creating societies of civilized beings that posses language and machines that use languages. Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agreed-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises. Meaning is a crude form of telepathy- as you listen to my voice, my thoughts become your thoughts and we compare them. This is communication, understanding, Reality is a domain of codes, and that is why the UFO problem is like a grammatical problem- like a dangling participle in the fourth-dimensional language that makes reality. It eludes simple approaches because its nature is somehow embedded in the machinery of epistemic knowing itself. -TM, Archaic Revival
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  2.  @donothingclub99  пожалуйста
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  3.  @Aypher Do you really believe that? McKenna always said the world is made of language. That's actually a biblical concept, even though McKenna wasn't religious. I'll give you a few facts about about language you probably don't know...BTW humans are the only beings on the planet with language. If it was simple and archaic all the creatures would speak. Now, do you realize that everything that is a thing was a word before it was a thing? The things that you make in your life you make them because of the things that you tell yourself. Words matter, not only do words matter but words ARE matter. This is an aside but it's fascinating. In Hebrew, the word things doesn't just mean things as in material things, it also means matter. As in the universe is made of matter. But it also means to speak. So to speak and things in Hebrew is the same word. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God. When God created everything he spoke it into existence, and since we are made in his image, we can also create things with our words. No other species on the planet can do that. Give yourself a little more credit.
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