10-09-2008, 08:14 AM
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sierra Nevada, Spain
Posts: 32
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E-Prime
It occurs to me that a few people on this forum are not familiar with E-Prime..which is a pity as
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It seems likely that the principal software used in the human brain consists of words, metaphors, disguised metaphors, and linguistic structures in general. The Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis, in anthropology, holds that a change in language can alter our perception of the cosmos. A revision of language structure, in particular, can alter the brain as dramatically as a psychedelic. In our metaphor, if we change the software, the computer operates in a new way.
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R.I.P Robert Anton Wilson
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