Cyclone Dusk
@bryan FTFY
Cyclone Dusk
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Occasional artist, futurism proponent, nuclear power fanatic, harmony metaphysics rambler, and hopefully the kind of friend a friend a friend would like to have
@Zero_Democracy you got me interested in this and i found a fascinating article on it XD https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-expanse-belter-language/
@Zero_Democracy I also love how expressions we'd perceive as pidgin-like slang have evolved to become genuine honorifics. The owner of my company would probably think I'm being flippant if I called him "bossman" for instance :p
@Zero_Democracy Even mathematics itself may not be objective... its ability to predict reality may say more about how we PERCEIVE reality than how reality simply is. Grammar will mold itself to suit human processing. Starting with corporate/military/technical foundations, I can all too easily expect us to adapt it for ease of use thereafter, complimenting how our minds construct concepts.
@Zero_Democracy a total utilitarian sign language rework sounds quite appealing. is there any mathematically based conclusion we could draw on ideal grammatical structure, for instance? there are many constructed languages, but if there were one that were practical enough maybe it could catch on under that basis alone.
I love your metion of the belters. They absolutely WOULD adapt a gestural language like that.
@unascribed soooooo relevant rn @_@
@Sir_Boops was gonna recommend my pal and fellow sergal @Xion to y'all but it's hard to convince people to reach out of their comfort zone. Either way, hope the network keeps growing
@Elizafox Yeah! You ARE capable :D it's just accessed through a different vector for you than it is for most others.
@Elizafox one of the best things the human brain does is pattern recognition. like that's one of its most highly optimized functions. patterns of our own behavior can sink beneath our awareness, becoming part of our autopilot, being handled by our default mode network. Big lesson for me this year: my default mode network is not ME. The habits and impulses i've cultivated, on purpose or not, are like their own little animals over which i am responsible.
@Elizafox mindfulness, in practice, in my experience, most often culminates in moments where i step back, blink, and really NOTICE what i'm doing. NOTICING when I'm about to reinforce a destructive behavior in myself. It's one thing to look back on something after the fact and think "oh dammit, i did it AGAIN." It's another thing entirely to get that weird whiff of deja vu like smelling salts and rushing back to your senses realizing "... wait. I'm about to do that thing again...!"