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Everything around you has a name. Nothing cannot be talked about.
>the world consists of meaning

>> No.4538592

>>4538590
Defined by you. I dont recall a lion discussing rocks.

>> No.4538593

>>4538590
>leaps from "it exists" to "it is essential"

>> No.4538596

>>4538590
Thinking consists of neural patterns roughly isomorphic to either the real world or counterfactual situations, which is essentially what meaning is.

>> No.4538615

>>4538592
'lion'

>> No.4538617

>>4538596
>neural patterns roughly isomorphic to either the real world or counterfactual situation
Hahahaha.
Lol.

>> No.4538627

Some language don't differentiate between blue and green. What if some other life forms don't differentiate between organic matter and inorganic matter.

>> No.4538632

What's the name for the back of the knee, smartass?

>> No.4538634

>>4538632

The back of the knee.

>> No.4538635

>>4538627
and?
get to the point
>>4538632
>the back of the knee

>> No.4538637

>>4538632
"the back of the knee"

>> No.4538651

bump

>> No.4538668

>>4538632

The arrowhead.

>> No.4538679

>>4538627
our wayback ancestors couldn't and probably some tribes today still can't make the distinction between animate and inanimate

some learning has to occur, is all

>> No.4538685

>>4538679
Believing that everything has a soul or spirit is different from not being able to differentiate between organic and inorganic.

>> No.4538686

>>4538627
We don't differentiate between organic and inorganic matter.

We simply divided chemistry into those two divisions as the models are significantly different that it is easiero to have two than to add thousands of exceptions to one or the other.

>> No.4538687

>>4538686
And you couldn't divide chemistry into those divisions unless you could differentiate between organic and inorganic.

>> No.4538696

Thanks guys.
Could of been a great thread but you had to ruin it...

>> No.4538826

>>4538685
I wasn't talking about the philosophy of animism, I mean they could not conceive of a difference between animate/inanimate and therefore could not even begin to believe in a difference between organic/inorganic matter

less than 200 years ago we thought caloric was a real substance, whatever happened to the ether theory? we changed our minds about how the world worked, just like our ancestors slowly began to realize that the mountain rocks falling in the hills were just rocks and didn't have intent of their own
>>4538687
he's saying that it's a convenient grouping, which is not the same as saying that all "organic" chemistry only involves "organic matter," which I assume you are taking to mean matter that is alive.
sure, the idea of organic/inorganic can be used to differentiate between the generalities of the science as a whole, but noone classifies matter itself as organic or inorganic
>>4538696
Which direction did you intend it to take?

>> No.4538842

>>4538687
you may as well say there's a division between gases and liquids, the only difference is pressure.

The division is there purely because carbon demonstrates a higher tendency to caternate than other elements, this leads to behavior that is studied as organic chemistry because there is more to look at there than there is in the rest of chemistry.

And you know the reason we have the division in the first place, all the way back when we didn't know about the interchangable nature of matter

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4538856

Damn, that bitch fine.

>> No.4538873

>>4538696
>of
Good riddance, dipshit.