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lad@ausom.oz.au (Lyn Dawson) writes:

>Something I've just come across may be of interest, if not scientific:

>"The Map is Not the Territory"

From Count Korzipsky (spelled wrong, I'm sure), General Semantics.
There are lots of fun variations on this:
"The menu is not the meal"
"The picture in the ad is not the product."
etc.

>"The meaning of your communication is the response you get - if you
>don't like the response - vary your communication"

This sounds like some of Werner Erhard's bullsh*t.  It has only a
limited validity, and raises questions of "meaning for who"?  But it
can also be used to beat people over the head, telling them that
the reason they're leading such miserable, rotten, lousy lives is
that they are miserable, rotten, and lousy, and they should "take
responsibility for their own lives because they create their own
world."

>regards
>--
>Lyn Dawson         InterNet  lad%ausom.oz.@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
>East Brighton
>Victoria
>Australia          "Subvert the dominant paradigm"

Should we make subverting the dominant paradigm the dominant paradigm?
regards
burt voorhees