Harry Hindu

To say that an "error" occurred, or that some information replication system got something "wrong", is saying that this system had intent to do it one...

The only time you find my thinking incomprehensible is when I apply YOUR theory to other uses of language, like plagiarism. If integrating your theory...

Where, or what, is the "we" in this explanation? Is it a human body, a human brain, a human mind or what? If conscious processes are stages that we ex...

Saying that you're using a word is only getting at a fraction of what is going on. How are you using it - to what end - if not to name your ideas?

That they point to things, yes. Davidson is pointing to HIS idea and his intent to communicate it, not yours, creativesoul or Janus ideas or else we'd...

Yes. I thought the same when Srap Tasmaner mentioned "awareness". We'd need to nail down what we mean by "awareness" and conscious vs subconscious.

Strange, considering that this thread seems to be dedicated to what Davidson meant. If Davidson didn't mean one thing with his use of words, then it a...

Exactly, so now I'm confused as to why my analogy didn't work for you if you're now admitting that similarity of sound and shape are the associations ...

You're simply describing the same problem, but with different variables. A calculator, for instance, can solve addition problems no matter what number...

To better understand what someone is getting at when they use language is to ask that person what they meant. You'd have to go to Davidson. Part of th...

It was minutia from the get-go considering the assumptions built into the OP. If not an algorithmic account, then what reasons would you have for inte...

I'm not sure about this stat or how it interprets "speech errors", and what impact speech impairments have here, but it if this is correct it seems to...

Trivial nonsense. Trying to solve the problem of interpreting what is meant by an unintended word that sounds like the word that was intended is done ...

I think that you are muddying the waters bringing awareness into this. If it happened "below our level of awareness" (whatever that means) then how ar...

Your virtual keyboard on your smart phone detects similarly typed words that you might have intended to type instead of what you actually did type and...

The thing about chess and language is that you have to have someone else to play with, and the rules have to be established before the game, or else s...

Then we must be talking past each other. A malapropism is the mistaken use of a similarly shaped, or sounding word. Words are objects in the sense tha...

Just because some rules have been memorized (stored in long term memory rather than working memory) does not mean that you no longer know how to use t...

Assuming that we've communicated successfully comes with an understanding that you know the rules and also knowing that others use the same rules, or ...

Until we clear up whether the use was intended or not, no communication has happened. After all, there just might be a new dance called the Flamingo.

We only question the proper use of some words when words were used but communication didn't occur.

I think an excellent example would be using a meat tenderize to hammer a nail, or a hammer to tenderize your meat. Both tools are similarly shaped, ju...

Malapropism is a noun.

Same here. So is Davidson using language in a new way that hasn't been imitated or simply not using language correctly, or is it you and I that are no...

Sounds like rules for language use to me. If language use is open-ended then there can be no wrong way to use a word (no such thing as malapropisms), ...

Ultimately, the solution I'd ike to see is the abolishment of all political parties (group-think).

Terms used by ppl who've been indoctrinated to think in black and white, right and left, etc., as if there are only two directions/positions to swing.

If your prediction is false then it isnt about the future. This means that predictions aren't about the future, but are about memories of similar cond...

Neural networks weren't born knowing Chinese, English or any other language. The neural network had to learn those instructions, which means that the ...

Self-reference appears to create an infinite regress, of the self referencing itself, referencing itself, referencing itself, etc., just like when a v...

What does it even mean for the future to be false unless you aren't really talking about the future, but a representation of the future? The fact that...

Wouldn't the lesser evil be a third party? I don't know about you, but that "debate" on Tuesday night was just more evidence of why alternative choice...

Your missing an important component - the instructions. The instructions are in the room, along with the man, but are two separate entities inside the...

Actually, your comment is referring to the post, not the comment. The post is more than the comment and when I click the link, it refers me to the who...

Absolutely, because these things are ideas in which scribbles and sounds can be about. You never talk about your actual future. You can only talk abou...

Seems to me that I have to first know that I am self-aware. What does that mean? What is it like to be self-aware? Is self-awareness a behaviour, feel...

Define what it is to be the post, and then define what it is referencing the post. You might find that part of the post is referencing the whole. So a...

I dont think so. Referencing is a causal relationship between the referencer and what is referenced. Something having a relationship with itself is in...

Games have a finite number of rules. Once you know all the rules you know how to play the game. Change the rules and then you change the game you're p...

But why would you do such a thing? What purpose would naming objects only for yourself, that you already know, be? Do you have to name a rock to know ...

Then an infant that learned its first word, "Mamma", now knows English even though it can't write the word nor even understands what words or language...

Is it? I thought sex was physical. You mean to tell me that I've been having conceptual sex with my wife and not physical sex this whole time? Does th...

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Seems to me that missing component here is memory. You need a space to store the symbolic relationships between the scribble/sound of a word and what ...

First you say that knowledge of any language isn't important, then go on to explain how some entity knows Chinese or not. Seems like we need to know h...

I've already asked them to do that as well as define understanding, but they only seem willing to keep asserting their unfound notions. They also igno...

The problem is that in order to use words, there has to be a commonly understood meaning with two or more people. Communication is what you use words ...

And we use scribbles to communicate. Think I've said that before.

Like i said, it will require a change in the way we think about reality - like abandoning dualism, materialism and idealism. Everything is relationshi...

Because consciousness had been in the domain of religion as the soul for so long. Science seems to want to dismiss it as an illusion, but then conscio...