Monday, March 2, 2009

B.F. Fuller's Synergetics, accurate science basis in language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Use_of_language_and_neologisms

The words "down" and "up", according to Fuller, are awkward in that they refer to a planar concept of direction inconsistent with human experience. The words "in" and "out" should be used instead, he argued, because they better describe an object's relation to a gravitational center, the Earth. "I suggest to audiences that they say, "I'm going 'outstairs' and 'instairs.'" At first that sounds strange to them; They all laugh about it. But if they try saying in and out for a few days in fun, they find themselves beginning to realize that they are indeed going inward and outward in respect to the center of Earth, which is our Spaceship Earth. And for the first time they begin to feel real "reality." [38]

"World-around" is a term coined by Fuller to replace "worldwide". The general belief in a flat Earth died out in the Middle Ages, so using "wide" is an anachronism when referring to the surface of the Earth — a spheroidal surface has area and encloses a volume, but has no width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas detracts from and misleads intuition. Other neologisms collectively coined by the Fuller family, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder, are the terms sunsight and sunclipse, replacing sunrise and sunset to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-Copernican celestial mechanics. Fuller also coined the phrase Spaceship Earth.

D: his idea for basing co-ordinates on 60 degree, hexagonal concepts is also trippy.
Nature is undecided on the issue, having both cubic and hexagonal molecular lattices.

D: Fuller shows how ancient, primitive and superstitious concepts still pervade 'modern' English.
Maybe the only way to fully jettison this heavy baggage would be a modern language.
A new one.

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