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| ===Anathem - Neal Stephenson=== | ===Anathem - Neal Stephenson=== |
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| [[reading notes]] from Anathem by [[Neal Stephenson]] | * [[reading notes]] from Anathem by [[Neal Stephenson]] |
| | * [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items/itemKey/Q34JUQ43/q/anathem|FoAM Library reference]] |
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| * math | * math |
| * library grapes & oak | * library grapes & oak |
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| "We have nothing in common with the Geometers. No shared experiences, no common culture. Until that changes, we can't communicate with them. Why not? Because language is nothing more than a stream of symbols that are perfectly meaningless until we associate them, in our minds, with meaning; a process of acculturation. Until we share experiences with the Geometers, and thereby begin to develop a shared culture - in effect, to merge our culture with theirs - we cannot communicate with them, and their efforts to communicate with us will continue to be just as incomprehensible as the gestures they've made so far: throwing the Warden of Heaven out the airlock, dropping a fresh murder victim into a cult site and rodding a volcano." (628) | "We have nothing in common with the Geometers. No shared experiences, no common culture. Until that changes, we can't communicate with them. Why not? Because language is nothing more than a stream of symbols that are perfectly meaningless until we associate them, in our minds, with meaning; a process of acculturation. Until we share experiences with the Geometers, and thereby begin to develop a shared culture - in effect, to merge our culture with theirs - we cannot communicate with them, and their efforts to communicate with us will continue to be just as incomprehensible as the gestures they've made so far: throwing the Warden of Heaven out the airlock, dropping a fresh murder victim into a cult site and rodding a volcano." (628) |
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