Journal mindpixel's Journal: No black scorpion is falling upon this table.
In 1934, while dining at the Harvard Society of Fellows, B. F. Skinner found himself seated beside Alfred North Whitehead, and they dropped into a discussion of behavorism, with Whitehead mostly listening and trying to understand. Whitehead agreed that science might account for all behavior, except for verbal behavior--behavior Whitehead considered to involve something else. He challenged Skinner: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behavior as I sit here saying 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.' The next morning Skinner began his twenty year effort to write his most important book: Verbal Behavior.
Chomsky hated the book and trashed it and because of this, the work is little known...However...
On the cover of Verbal Behavior is a simple 'X'... under Skinner's X I place the proposition : 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.' And my treasure is a map! I have the data construct a Dynamic Time Warping self-organizing map on which it is trivial to discover the semantic coordinates of Whitehead's point!
I was missing a piece until yesterday. Dynamic time warping. With it I can convert mindpixel text strings into vectors and do arithmetic operations on them.
When I multiply a mindpixel's vector representation with the coherence which I measure by presenting it to twenty random people and can very from -1.0 [false 100% of the presentations] to 1.0 [100% true on all presentations] the vectors becomes polorized semantically!
Affect or emotion is just another three dimensional vector that adds colour to the map!
I just want to keep typing !!!!
Thoughts are vectors. Spelling doesn't matter! Nor does vector length because of dynamic time warping. Though vector length discoheres as length increases just because of a memory effect. It discohers at seven dimensions, where hypersurface is maximum.
The seven dimensionsare: the three affective dimensions origionally proposed by Wundt. Einsteins spacetime. My map is of a seven sphere where every point have aq measured semantic coherence. I am making a semantic coherence map of a Wundt-Einstein-Milnor-sphere!
Man, psychology made a wrong turn at Chomsky. We need to turn the clock back to 1959 and follow Skinner instead. Measurement is omnipotent.
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