on language
Language is our way to communicate thoughts and feeling; there is no doubt for that. But have we trapped our minds within this cage of language? George Orwell's 1984 mentioned something about reducing unwanted ideas from society by taking out all the related words because ideas cannot form in the absence of the words to describe them. Similarly, our minds could possibly think a lot faster if we are not thinking with the language we speak today. In programming language, there is low level and high level languages. The very low level language would be the most basic instructions like add and multiply. Then each higher level language would be using the low level ones to make more complicated functions. What if the human mind uses this approach to think? What if we think with new simple words and function-like thoughts that represent a complicated concept? Could we then increase our speed of thinking? We might be able to think complicated concepts quickly and describe sophisticated ideas with only few words.
What if instead of thinking one thing at a time, we think multiple things at a time? For instant, I have heard genious kids doing this test sort of thing in which they listen to two people speaking two math problems to them at the same time, and then they have to solve both questions at the same time. We didnt born with the way we think. We are TAUGHT how to think. Remember when you were taught how to read? I was taught to read one word at a time. But think about it. All English words are really make of multiple letters, and we are actually looking at this set of letters at the same time. We call it one word. What if we train our next generation to look at a set of words at a time? Then they could possibly read one sentance with the time we read one word. What if we read the whole page at a time?
I believe the human mind's potential is far from being reached (for an average guy like me). To improve our efficiency, we must come up with a new paradigm of thinking, and one major component in thinking is the language we use.
Language is our way to communicate thoughts and feeling; there is no doubt for that. But have we trapped our minds within this cage of language? George Orwell's 1984 mentioned something about reducing unwanted ideas from society by taking out all the related words because ideas cannot form in the absence of the words to describe them. Similarly, our minds could possibly think a lot faster if we are not thinking with the language we speak today. In programming language, there is low level and high level languages. The very low level language would be the most basic instructions like add and multiply. Then each higher level language would be using the low level ones to make more complicated functions. What if the human mind uses this approach to think? What if we think with new simple words and function-like thoughts that represent a complicated concept? Could we then increase our speed of thinking? We might be able to think complicated concepts quickly and describe sophisticated ideas with only few words.
What if instead of thinking one thing at a time, we think multiple things at a time? For instant, I have heard genious kids doing this test sort of thing in which they listen to two people speaking two math problems to them at the same time, and then they have to solve both questions at the same time. We didnt born with the way we think. We are TAUGHT how to think. Remember when you were taught how to read? I was taught to read one word at a time. But think about it. All English words are really make of multiple letters, and we are actually looking at this set of letters at the same time. We call it one word. What if we train our next generation to look at a set of words at a time? Then they could possibly read one sentance with the time we read one word. What if we read the whole page at a time?
I believe the human mind's potential is far from being reached (for an average guy like me). To improve our efficiency, we must come up with a new paradigm of thinking, and one major component in thinking is the language we use.
posted by dk at 2:54 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home