RE: [-empyre-] fwd from Andrew Murpie re fundamental.

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Sounds good to me, one way of thinking of this is that language relies on
protocols or substrates/substructures, which rely on energy input for
maintenance and interpretation.

Years ago I wrote on this - the concept of inscription, what's involved -

Alan

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, John Hopkins wrote:

> Hallo folks...
>
> language is a socially abstracted tool (technology) to transfer
> abstractions between the self and the Other.
>
> vs
>
> an embodied process/praxis for the transfer of energy between the
> self and the Other.
>
> for example.
>
> the sonic disturbance of speaking (or growling, screaming, humming)
> carries bio-energy from my embodied presence to the Other [from the
> mechanistic view: vibrating vocal chords, pressure waves in air,
> moving the parts of another's ear -- from a quantum view:
> electromagnetic flows within my body, which excite EM flows outside
> my body which excite flows of EM within the Other's body]
>
> language cannot do that (it is an abstract wrapping of this energy
> transfer but carries no energy in and of itself).
>
> hmmmm.
>
> language is only necessary to transfer models and ideas
> (abstractions) as a shared protocol within a social sphere of being.
>
> (a comparable model:  barter vs electronic exchange of funds).
>
> saturday morning tea musings
>
> jh
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