Yesterday I had to drive to Liverpool to pick up my car. I'd given Liz a lift to Heathrow - she's in India now - and my car was not big enough to carry her luggage and herself. So we used her car.
As I drove I was listening to one of a series of lectures on the origins of life. The
topic was emergence and I suddenly felt:- sort of, like, yes, this is what I have been looking for!
You know when you have lost your cell phone and you take your room apart looking for it, and the phone is absolutely not in the room? And then your Mom comes in. And she goes straight to your comfy chair and pulls the phone out from down the back. And you are swept by a wave of elation, and cry out YES!, and punch the air. And you know it is you that has really found the phone and that your Mom was just the instrument. Right?
(I think Madison might have been channeling just then.)
Well, that is how I felt. Could emergence be used to explain language behaviour? I wondered.
Well it seems Rudi Keller is also wondering. Read his book. A snip at £105!
Rudi Keller shows how signs emerge, function, and develop in the permanent process of language change. He recombines thoughts and ideas from Plato to the present day to create a new theory of the meaning and evolution of icons and symbols.
A message to you Rudi.
I thought of it first! Well, sort of.... perhaps.
More on this later.
For now let's watch the boids instead.
As I drove I was listening to one of a series of lectures on the origins of life. The
topic was emergence and I suddenly felt:- sort of, like, yes, this is what I have been looking for!
You know when you have lost your cell phone and you take your room apart looking for it, and the phone is absolutely not in the room? And then your Mom comes in. And she goes straight to your comfy chair and pulls the phone out from down the back. And you are swept by a wave of elation, and cry out YES!, and punch the air. And you know it is you that has really found the phone and that your Mom was just the instrument. Right?
(I think Madison might have been channeling just then.)
Well, that is how I felt. Could emergence be used to explain language behaviour? I wondered.
Well it seems Rudi Keller is also wondering. Read his book. A snip at £105!
Rudi Keller shows how signs emerge, function, and develop in the permanent process of language change. He recombines thoughts and ideas from Plato to the present day to create a new theory of the meaning and evolution of icons and symbols.
A message to you Rudi.
I thought of it first! Well, sort of.... perhaps.
For now let's watch the boids instead.