Re: All are One. Buddha was a Borg. Resistance is futile.

>Gerry: Your idea that a more abstract languge develops out of a >simpler
>one is a good place to start. But you still haven't >clarified why this
>language springs up in different geographic >locales?

Because the process is extremely gradual and inevitable. You see, any vocal
language arising from a sign language in two independant camps would have
its own idiosyncracies. One group may find it cooler to go "A!" when one
points but in another, maybe "Sa!". The point is the real "word" meaning
something along the lines of "there". In the beginning, the vocal
exclamations aren't words but rather random exclamatory mumbling
accompanying the real language: sign. The vocal part of the language at
first isn't too complex, being nothing more than meaningless babble.
Gradually, very gradually, different groups will arrive at completely
different and unrelated words, full of meaning and encoded in a new abstract
vocal medium. At that point, it is the sign that becomes meaningless. It
becomes "babble" used for emphasis and nuance only at most.

In this scenario, TWO proto-Worlds develop making all monogeneticists
everywhere tremble with atheism. The meanings of these vocal words, then,
can be slowly conveyed across an entire group without running in to the wall
of a language paradox. The sign language provides that bridge.

>Actually Glen your universe sounds bizarre. Stick to baking apple >pies
>for, erh, which holiday was it anyway? The given (back to >Hawking) is
>that the universe has always existed.

Not really. Prove it exists and then I will accept it as fact.

>And I agree that resistance is futile. This is the point I was >trying to
>make about simultaneous evolution -- that things just >evolve because they
>do and to counter the flow is a no no.

You mean the direction of apathy, or is that entropy. I always get those
confused. Poor Ockhim would turn over in his grave, and his rasor too.

>So, back to our planet. We need to consolidate all of mankind under >one
>umbrella and substitute the computer for Buddha. Knowledge will >become
>god and those of us involved in the knowledge market will >become knowledge
>disciples.

Yes under one umbrella. Wouldn't want humanity to get wet under the reign of
terror I have over this list. :P

>And GG when your universe implodes, you're welcome to come to mine.

I don't feel comfortable in universes that exist without proof. What would
Hawking's computer keyboard say about that.

- gLeN
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