Which country would you like to live in?

[johnwillyums]

I read somewhere that the Inuit diet features a lot of blubber and highly saturated fat. Must help them keep warm.
However they have a low heart attack/cholesterol problem.

Makes yer fink dunnit?

Oh and Kari. Very well put. You are obviously multilingual and your written English is impeccable. Do you still think in Finnish?

 

[Tews]

I read somewhere that the Inuit diet features a lot of blubber and highly saturated fat. Must help them keep warm.
However they have a low heart attack/cholesterol problem.

There are still some nomadic tribes on the coasts that still rely on Whale blubber as a staple, but as western culture continues to invade their lifestyle, not so much anymore... Whale blubber was often eaten in the form of a jerky, while on hunting expeditions... Ive eaten whale meat and enjoyed it very much, but couldnt get past the odor of blubber .. call me a chicken..

 

[Kari]

I read somewhere that the Inuit diet features a lot of blubber and highly saturated fat. Must help them keep warm.
However they have a low heart attack/cholesterol problem.

Makes yer fink dunnit?

Oh and Kari. Very well put. You are obviously multilingual and your written English is impeccable. Do you still think in Finnish?

I've noticed the thought process automatically adopts the current spoken language. When I'm alone, I do think in Finnish, as well as when I'm talking with friends and family in Finland or meeting other Finns here.

When I'm with my wife we speak German and my thought process swaps to that. At work I use German, English and Swedish and the language of the thought process normally follows the current language. I notice it when for example having a meeting in English and afterwards phoning home to my wife; thought language takes some time to change and I find it first difficult to find German words to talk with her.

Kari

 

[Kari]

Many of my thoughts are unfinnished.

I'm Finnish, not Finished. Long live the small difference

 

[johnwillyums]

Many of my thoughts are unspeakable

 

[johnwillyums]

Actually that's really thought provoking.
Do we write a script microseconds before we speak and then say it.
Is there pure thought?
Babies have no language so can they think?

 

[Kari]

...
Hearing babies of signing non-hearing parents babble in sign language.
...

Really? Never heard! That is a really interesting piece of information. Have to check the interweb to see if I can find more info.

It means the babies have an ability to differ sign language from other hand and body movements!

 

[Barman58]

If a tree falls in the forest when no one is there to hear it fall - does it make any sound

Is Kari Multilingual or just a cunning linguist?

 

[johnwillyums]

Thanks Antman. Knew I could rely on you.
Actually think I read Pinker some time ago.
I think the Inuit have a zillion words for snow but cannot form the concept of patio furniture.
Also what about certain languages with no past tense?
Can't get my head round that.

 

[johnwillyums]

but does it limit our ability to think?

 

[johnwillyums]

Can't remember who said it but some philosophor said I do not know what I think unless I can see what I think on paper (or it might have been E.M Forster)

 

[H2SO4]

Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone :: University of Southampton

YouTube - B2B - BrainToBrain: A BCI Experiment - May 2009

As always, the pr0n industry will get to decide which of the competing B2B formats achieves market domination.

 

[johnwillyums]

That's fascinating Antman but surely it doesn't demonstrate pure thought surely. The experiment and the individuals instructions were conceived in a language.

sorry about all the surelys

 

[johnwillyums]

lovely

 

[Tews]

Can't remember who said it but some philosophor said I do not know what I think unless I can see what I think on paper (or it might have been E.M Forster)

I completely understand that.

hBeEaArTt

false of me
to say
you make my
heartbeat
dreaming and dancing
rhythms

sparing speech
i smile
you make my
heartbeat
dancers and dreamers
in rhyme

In the words of Stevie Nix " ..it doesnt mean sh*t to a tree ..

 

[jfar]

Can't remember who said it but some philosophor said I do not know what I think unless I can see what I think on paper (or it might have been E.M Forster)

I completely understand that.

hBeEaArTt

false of me
to say
you make my
heartbeat
dreaming and dancing
rhythms

sparing speech
i smile
you make my
heartbeat
dancers and dreamers
in rhyme

In the words of Stevie Nix " ..it doesnt mean sh*t to a tree ..

:roflmao:

 

[Tews]

Well I knew that ... I was testing you Aman!!

 

[Kari]

YouTube - B2B - BrainToBrain: A BCI Experiment - May 2009

I have never known I was making science when participating those sometimes very boring Chamber of Commerce seminars. The term B2B said nothing to me.

Now I know what B2B means. I am a scientist!

 

[johnwillyums]

Grace Slick, babbling acid queen, later said "we built this city on rock'n'roll"
What went wrong there?

 

[Tews]

Grace Slick, babbling acid queen, later said "we built this city on rock'n'roll"
What went wrong there?

Disco...