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Post by hsandman » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:42 pm

Decided to post something im working on.
A list concepts and words i am using to label these concepts.

Any comments and alternatives alredy in use for these concepts with links to each would be great help.

"Organism"
A cooperative of cells or cooperative of multi celled organisms.

"Cooperative of cells"
Living cells working together towards common goal.
Eg: wolf, fish, human
Therefore you could describe wolf as an organism

"cooperative of multi celled organisms"
Multi celled organisms working together towards common goal.
Eg: pack of wolves, school of fish, tribe of humans.
Therefore you could describe a pack of wolves as an organism

"rabbit hole" the hole that lead Alice in wonderland to land so strange that it only can only exist in imagination, i.e.: Journey in imagination and exercise in fantastic conjecturing.
(Hope that’s understandable)

"human condition"
A broad description of humanity's "condition" i.e.: state of being.
The state to which we (the human tribe {see below}) have arrived after being influenced by multitude of unique factors eg: intelligence, technology, economics, medicine, art, language etc, etc that is radically different from state to which "animals" have arrived. Took the concept for this word off this site after reading the posts :S

"synchronization"
An adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison. Similar thing to what is called a "handshake" when modem connects to another modem.
Quote:
A modem handshake is what occurs when the receiving modem answers the phone call and the two modems begin to communicate. Before anything else happens, the modems must evaluate the quality of the line, negotiate error control protocols and data compression that they can both recognize, and work out what the most suitable connection speed should be, based on the conditions. This process is called the handshake. If the modem's internal speaker is turned up, you'll hear the handshake as screeches, bells, and whistles. Once that has happened, the modems send data back and forth between the two computers. The modem that initiates the connection sends data in a lower frequency range and listens for the response in a higher range, corresponding to the receiving modem.

Synchronization seem to be the result of some underlying law of nature as the experiment with 2 metronomes placed near each other, would after a while synchronize with each other.



Some ideas that can be extracted from this:

Communication is atempt at syncronization.
Cooperation is atempt at syncronization.

If syncronisation is law of nature then
cooperation and comunication is inevitable and more wide spread among separate (?) things than you would expect if such law was non existant.

Formation of organisms is inevitable.

Formation of perpetualy increasing in sophistication with time organisms is inevitable. (ie:evolution is invitable for a person as much as it is for a group of persons. eg: ant or group of ants.)


'Communication'
The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, art, behavior... ( etc, etc, etc.)

"language"
Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect.
A system of signs, symbols, gestures, or rules used in communicating: the language of algebra.
Essentially includes every possible way for transfer of mental concepts/information from one consciousness to another consciousness by system of rules that are closely synchronised together,

"body language" The gestures, postures, and facial expressions by which a person or animal (I would say all multi celled organisms) manifests various physical, mental, or emotional states and communicates nonverbally with others.
Eg: bee's little wiggle dance to communicate the location and directions to food, is done by dance which is body language.

"Earlier languages" This is speculation on my part, but I would imagine there was more rudimentary communication between less complicated organisms at earlier stage of evolution, chemical language is my guess such as "pheromone language" along with some others less complicated communication systems between cooperating organisms. The very first language that there would have been is "genetic language" the one that is written in chemicals, protein bases G A T C . Letters in sentences made in DNA spiral. Instructing on how to build biological machines that living beings essentially are. That is what I meant by "earlier languages"

"Verbal language"
A system of communication based on words in human language,
verbal language = eg: English, French, German etc. which includes "phonetic language"

(Verbal: Of, relating to, or associated with words.
Language: see above )

"phonetic language" a language based on sounds.

"human tribe" a group of humans based on distinct and separate "human condition" from another group. A distinct community/tribe eg: difference that makes that group unique. i.e : religion, physical apierance, ideolagy, social rules, development, language/laws from another group. Usually such uniqueness is caused by physical separation of the group from other group for extended time. eg: Eskimos from aborigines,/ different beliefs, different apierance, different language, different set of social rules and values, except for the rules/values that are necessary for such group to coexist eg: do not steal.



"Backtracking" Going back to original state where divergence happened, I don't really know how to explain it :S
Take steps in reverse order?



”similar origin organisms”: = Organisms that have originated from common source.

”Hardwired in the genes”: = coded by protein base pairs in DNA that does not change with time.

"Philosophy" act of pointing out the obvious to someone in the window, while falling down of the building.

"Holy war" Idiots fighting over whose fairytale is the correct one.
It's just a ride.

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Post by propellerbeanie » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:38 pm

Please allow me to object.

Organism:

It is very possible to look at all of humanity and even all life as being one organism, unless we take a view that we are each handed our lives by a supreme being before conception. We get life and give life, and are only a link in a very long chain of life. So, we can talk about this society, or that group within society as being an organization, or better word yet, A corporation, the fact is we are all one life, feeding on life, and being food at the same instant for multitudes of nearly related life forms all over our bodies inside and out. This is making me hungry. Everyones eating but me.

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