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Originally Posted by PairTheBoard
It's sort of a trick experiment to say, "pretend you are newborn with no past experience and are just here now. But of course you still have capability with language. Now describe your experience."
Any word you evoke evokes the entire complex of experiences you've had with that word. That is how you have your understanding of your meaning for that word. The experiment is self contradictory. Any word you utter automatically refers to past experience. The "experiment" is really a statement about the nature of language.
PairTheBoard
I suspect you listened to enough of it then and are aware that you are clarifying his point which is the age old point, one of many from the upanishads that the supreme self can't be effed. Or maybe you just needed to listen a little longer?
Before that you are making a point and made it bold.
If you wish to argue against deep meditative states, it's a non-starter. So i don't think you're doing that.
If you disagree with this method, that is fine.
You can have an 'aha' moment. Most times i fail right out of the gate. I need to be tricked and caught off guard. I have had only two.
Finally, if you wish to argue a greater point....
Last edited by MacOneDouble; 02-05-2024 at 10:15 AM.
