Philosophy Wire: Silence. Speaking everything.

Students have discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves using an imaging system they developed as freshmen. By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, the students revealed that a manuscript leaf held in RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing. [1] Hidden words. Beneath words. And beneath them other words. And other. And other. And beneath all of them... silence. Think about it, Stop talking. Stop thinking. Can you listen to the flowers? They are the only ones talking anyway.

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Philosophy Wire: Brain. Voice. Speaking. Silence.

A particular neuronal circuit in the brains of bats controls their vocalizations. Based on the rhythm with which the circuit oscillated, researchers were able to predict the kind of sounds the bats were about to make. These research results could contribute to a better understanding of human diseases in which language is impaired such as Parkinson's or Tourette syndrome. [1]

People always wanted to speak.
Especially because there is another way to convey messages.
And they prefer being silent.

By speaking a lot.
Listen.
There is nothing to listen to.

Because no one speaks to speak. But to be heard…

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The pronunciation paradox.

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Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A new study of shows that everyone believes their own pronunciation to be best. (1)

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen…

Do you see?

Think of it too hard and you will not be able to. For listening entails speaking. Speaking the same things that others say inside your own head. You only do that only when others speak. But when you do speak at the end, there is no sound to listen to. It is just you and the cosmos.

Shaped in silence.

Out of your every word…

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Philosophy Wire: Listening. Shhhhh…

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Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken. [1] Even when there is silence, we listen things. Even when someone speaks not, we imagine of words. Words comprehended. Words unsaid. Silence full of Logos. In the midst of the desert, can you listen to yourself? In the void of everything, can you see anything? The macaque may listen to the words. But he will never understand them. Because their comprehension has nothing to do with anything he hears…

The tree listen as well.
And the rock.
The sound waves transcend the universe.
And yet, no one understand them.

Except those who have something to say…

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Philosophy Wire: New languages. Logos. Children. Silence.

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How did the almost 6,000 languages of the world come into being? Researchers have tried to simulate the process of developing a new communication system in an experiment -- with surprising results: even preschool children can spontaneously develop communication systems that exhibit core properties of natural language. [1] There you are. Logos out of children. Language out of nothing. We admire the creation of new languages. But it is something so common that even kindergarten children can perform. No, we do not grow wiser as we get older. We just deteriorate into existence. What Is cannot speak. What Is should not be. Don’t listen to me. Listen to your children crying in despair. While their parents are teaching them how to speak…

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Philosophy Wire: Thinking in another language…

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Thinking in a foreign language can reduce emotional biases. A new study shows that thinking in a foreign language may help people be more objective when deciding on a price to sell an item. [1] Thinking in another language makes us more objective. Because thinking makes us subjective. In an objective cosmos, trying to find subjective meaning. In a subjective existence, trying to discover an objective universe. Objective. Subjective. Subjective. Objective. Viewing the cosmos. Always looking through the looking glass. Without ever being able to understand that it is this glass which makes us blind. Stop trying to speak. Stop trying to think. And for once in your life, while the red circle is drawn on the sand, right before the Roman soldier who cannot understand you, you will be truly objective…

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Philosophy Wire: Staying alone. Learning to speak…

Toddlers are surprisingly good at processing the speech of other young children, according to a new study. And toddlers who have more exposure to other children, such as those in daycare, may be particularly good at certain word learning skills. [1] Interact with others. Learn how to speak. Stand up. Look the cosmos from above. It is not you who started speaking. The cosmos always did. It is you who started listening. But be careful. For the noise is covering up what you need to hear…

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Philosophy Wire: Source of language… Silence… Wisdom…

Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research. [1] We try to find the source of languages in other languages. But what we blatantly ignore, is that the source of the first language was silence… Logos has its foundations in the void of the irrational… Standing in the midst of existence… This is the great secret that Logos whispers us… Do you dare to listen? Between the trees, a voiceless wind whispers the secret… “There is no secret”…

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Philosophy Wire: Adapting… Being… Seeing…

Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows. [1] Listen. For you are not seeing very well. Think. For you cannot hear anything. Feel. For you have lost connection with the cosmos. Die. For the only thing remaining is you. In a closed room, silence... For you to start speaking again…

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Philosophy Wire: No noise… No words… Just listen…

Researchers have demonstrated it's possible to silence noise using an open, ring-like structure, created to mathematically perfect specifications, for cutting out sounds while maintaining airflow. [1] Air flowing through your lungs. Going out to form words. Words forming meaning. But there is sound in the words you utter. For they are words of the mind. Meant to be heard by the heart. Inside a cosmos engulfed in silence. Silence broken only by the sound of a lonely man. Sitting alone under a tree. Trying to listen…

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Philosophy Wire: Adhesives. Without… adhesives. Logos. Existence.

A research team has used plasma treatment to make fluoropolymers and silicone resin adhere without any adhesives. [1] We are slaves to our definitions. We have defined “adhesives” and now we discover adhesives which are not… adhesives and yet they are… adhesive. In the beginning there was everything. And then man spoke. And all exploded into the oblivion of existence. Imagine a world with no definitions. Imagine a cosmos without words. There would be nothing in this world. And thus, everything…

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Philosophy Wire: Life. Microgravity. Impact analysis. Planets. Death.

Scientists have found evidence that when projectiles hit soft clumps of dust or hard clumps of loose glass beads, the scaling laws for energy dissipation and energy transfer are the same in each case. This helps us understand how granular clumps stick together, and how planets are formed. [1] Analyzing how planets are formed. By analyzing beads. It seems proper and scientific. And because of that, totally wrong and out of place. The world is not made out of beads or atoms. It is not made out of particles or matter. It is a cosmos made out of Logos. A living world full of light even in its darkest corner. Light which can never be seen or measured. For the beads will always behave like beads. And inside the vast galaxies, planets will always be formed. But there will never be even one planet in the universe, without someone treading on it. There will never be a planet in the cosmos. Without someone dying on it. Don’t analyze things much. For at some point you will understand all their details. And it is then, right at the moment of your greatest triumph, that a tear will drop down your cheek… A dead butterfly… Right on your hands… Do you see?

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Philosophy Wire: Matter-Matter. Chaos. Logos.

After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. Rice physicist Junichiro Kono, graduate student Xinwei Li and their international colleagues have discovered the first example of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system, a result reported in Science. The discovery could help advance the understanding of spintronics and quantum magnetism, Kono said. [1] In the beginning there was nothing. And then came Logos. Creating chaos. Ordering it into matter. Matter which expanded everywhere. Consuming everything in its path. And at the end, even our soul will be reduced to particles. Not because it has anything to do with them but because we believe it does. The universe will fade away. Not because of the stars dying, but because of our souls fading away into oblivion. At the end, Nothing. And then, will come Logos…

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Philosophy Wire: Death. Destruction. Life.

After a giant asteroid hit Earth about 66 million years ago, the planet’s climate went on a roller coaster ride. The space rock’s impact set off tsunamis and wildfires before climate-chilling clouds of sulfur gas engulfed the planet for decades, wiping out most life (SN: 11/25/17, p. 14). [1] Logos as the destructor of Life. Words as the murderers of Truth. Stop reading. Death. Life. Destruction. Creation. Raw untamed processes. Raging fire in a raging cosmos. Events that can’t be put into a scientific paper. Nor can anyone just “read” about them. You must experience death to know it. You must experience life to comprehend its true desperation. You must experience creation and destruction to truly know yourself. Experience. And then be silent… Conveying the message… By conveying nothing…

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Philosophy Wire: Nouns. Verbs. Logos. Silence. Dasein.

Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like 'uh' or 'uhm' mostly before nouns. Such slow-down effects are far less frequent before verbs, as researchers working together with an international team have discovered by looking at examples from different languages. [1] We believe Logos rules everything. And we like to see a cosmos made out of verbs. We uhhhh admire action and kinesis. But the turtle will always be ahead of Achilleas. Achilleas who exists even though he will never uhmmmm overpass that turtle. Logos is just noise. Silence rules our world. And when all the trees have fallen, what is left will be left to tell our tale. We were once here. We did not run. We just let the turtle be. Don’t hesitate to hesitate. You are what you do not do…

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Luck... Chance... Gods...

Its mostly luck, which determined the success of a person in life, according to a new research. [1] It is mostly luck which determined reproductive success. [2] Its mostly luck which determines the survivability of a species. [3]

In a world of chance, we insist on believing that it is us who determine our future. In a world dominated by random events, we keep insisting that it is us who make things happen. We know that there is Logos governing the universe. Because we are part of it. We feel it constantly. We have just misjudged what is the source of that Logos.

It is not logos within us.
It is logos transcending the cosmos.

Stay humble and you will see.
You cannot control anything.
Because you are everything...

Philosophy Wire: Bible, writing, Word...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-13]: A New Yorker wrote the whole Bible by hand. [source: web news] It took him 4 years. Writing something by hand makes it more personal. Nothing will ever replace that. In the beginning there was the Word. Word 2010.

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Philosophy Wire: The worlds most famous hiccup

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-18]:

In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes cannot speak when his turn comes due to a hiccup. He then calls Eriximachus, his physician, to speak on his behalf. A seemingly funny event, is trying to reveal to us a very important truth: that the unspoken can affect Logos, usually in ways we cannot even imagine...

(in continuation of The power of Humor & Jokes)

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