His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness.
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com
if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
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Litany Against Fear
The only completely dynamic pattern is Consciousness itself; other structures are static to a variable degree.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
– Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The relationship between the two groups is simple: the System protects data while the Semiotecs steal it.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The narrator is a “Calcutec,” a human data processor/encryption system who has been trained to use his subconscious as an encryption key. The Calcutecs work for the quasi-governmental System, as opposed to the criminal “Semiotecs” who work for the Factory and who are generally fallen Calcutecs.
The relationship between the two groups is simple: the System protects data while the Semiotecs steal it, although it is suggested that one man might be behind both. The narrator completes an assignment for a mysterious scientist, who is exploring “sound removal”.
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Extraverted intuition faces outward, greeting the world on behalf of Feeling.
What the observer usually sees is creativity with implied good will. Intuition spawns this type’s philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. It combines as auxiliary with introverted Feeling and gives rise to unusual skill in both character development and fluency with language–a sound basis for the development of literary facility.
If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists.
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Emoji – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emoji (絵文字) is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages.
Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means e “picture” + moji “letter”.
The characters are used much like emoticons elsewhere, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing (apologizing) businessman, a face wearing a face mask or a group of emoji representing popular foods (ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, sushi).
The three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au and SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone), have each defined their own variants of emoji.
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Some INFPs have a gift for taking technical information and putting it into layman’s terms. Brendan Kehoe’s Zen and the Art of the Internet is one example of this “de-jargoning” talent in action.
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