language

“Going all out in terms of radical honesty is not appreciating the kind of symbolic aspect of language. It's just kind of, it's like somewhat too narrow, too literalist in terms of how it understands language.”

“Language is as a means for communication. But it's also a means for miscommunication because there's all kinds of ambiguity in the words that we use and people use the same words and mean different things and then believe that they mean the same thing and can …”

“But the models were spatial motor. So they're a separate channel from language, and they're a redundant channel. They're another way of representing the same information, and the gestures are representing, and they're representing in a more direct way than lan…”

“The visual spatial world precedes language evolutionarily. It takes up far more of the cortex than language, and it has to have its own logic, not logic based, not a logic or a structural Based on language.”

“Well-crafted diagrams are superior to language for explaining Many, many, many kinds of information more directly, more succinctly.”

“Our language is not just an expression of our meaning making, but it also shapes our meaning making.”

“Just by using the language I choose to, it actually cultivates or constructs a new meaning around what you're doing, right? Rather than The world or someone else doing it to you, you're stepping into it in a different way. And it isn't just a pretend thing, yo…”

“And so language that is limiting for people is often as simple as what I, you know, described to you, the have to's and the need to's. It often shows up as like, I am just this way. Or I am the sort of person who has to respond when somebody emails me right aw…”