From b343be7b3a17cbcc10a88cbcf5e142b842d6e50a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sdbs Terra Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:29:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Automatic update, changed: las.quotes.md --- pages/las.quotes.md | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index 3689a85..3f4d992 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -202,18 +202,7 @@ Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be trans #### Chapter 7 -Complex information is thus organized and -transmitted by language composed of words. Nodes are almost always linked to other nodes, so that to recall one node is to summon others. -This linkage, with all the emotional coloring pulled up with it, is the -essence of what we refer to as meaning. The linkage of nodes is assembled as a hierarchy to organize information with more and more -meaning. "Hound," "hare" and "chasing" are nodes, each symbolizing -collectively a class of more or less similar images. A hound chasing a -hare is called a proposition, the next order of complexity in informa- -tion. The higher order above the proposition is the schema. A typical -schema is Ovid's telling of Apollo's courtship of Daphne, like an un- -stoppable hound in pursuit of an unattainable hare, wherein the -dilemma is resolved when Daphne, the hare and a concept, turns into -a laurel tree, another concept reached by a proposition. +Complex information is thus organized and transmitted by language composed of words. Nodes are almost always linked to other nodes, so that to recall one node is to summon others. This linkage, with all the emotional coloring pulled up with it, is the essence of what we refer to as meaning. The linkage of nodes is assembled as a hierarchy to organize information with more and more meaning. "Hound," "hare" and "chasing" are nodes, each symbolizing collectively a class of more or less similar images. A hound chasing a hare is called a proposition, the next order of complexity in information. The higher order above the proposition is the schema. A typical schema is Ovid's telling of Apollo's courtship of Daphne, like an unstoppable hound in pursuit of an unattainable hare, wherein the dilemma is resolved when Daphne, the hare and a concept, turns into a laurel tree, another concept reached by a proposition. ### oneliners We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.