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Had a random thought during my Language & Culture class (which actually looks to be halfway interesting).
We were discussing the concept of langue vs. parole, and though I'm not sure I quite understand that theory by Saussure quite perfectly, it's generally the theory that language exists as an abstract thought out there somewhere, and it's only when people speak (generally us accessing it through parole (utterance)) that it gains any meaning. Language is the general "work of a collective intelligence" that is both seperate in individuals and also existent as a community's whole.
I was oddly reminded of the Akashic Records that I've read about somewhere. Thought process: the Akashic Records exist somewhere out there holding all human knowledge, then maybe language is just sitting around some corner of those records out there on a different plane. People can access tiny, tiny parts of the Records through speaking, and each time a new language is developed, it's a new fragment of the Records being filtered out from that dimension into our reality. And what if a person can work through so much of this knowledge that they start reaching into other, more crucial parts of the Records? Stuff like actual stuff that will happen/is happening, the histories and actions of other individuals, previously unknown theories, so on and so forth? Kind of like how, if the Akashic Records is the "Universal Computer" then our language systems (la langue) are all part of a sub-sub-sub-sub folder named Files > Lol Humans > Human Knowledge > Language. Maybe if someone could dig through all the information lying around the Language folder, then they'll eventually reach the root that leads up to the larger folder of "Human Knowledge" and what if you could start browsing through that? sure it'd take AGES AND AGES AND AGES to go through it and find something useful (since you'd no doubt first stumble across bunches and bunches of useless crap like "how to make a banana split" or stuff like that), but what if you did find something that was actually revolutionary and that humans at the present time just haven't found yet? Genetic manipulation made easy, superintelligence, supernatural powers, so on and so forth. And you could possibly speed up the process of sifting through the junk in the Records if you had multiple people working in tandem working through the large folder until they stumble across a subfolder named "Human Evolution" or something. And --
and
and yeah.
Idek. ): I should probably be paying more attention in class instead of letting my thoughts wander wildly like this.
We were discussing the concept of langue vs. parole, and though I'm not sure I quite understand that theory by Saussure quite perfectly, it's generally the theory that language exists as an abstract thought out there somewhere, and it's only when people speak (generally us accessing it through parole (utterance)) that it gains any meaning. Language is the general "work of a collective intelligence" that is both seperate in individuals and also existent as a community's whole.
I was oddly reminded of the Akashic Records that I've read about somewhere. Thought process: the Akashic Records exist somewhere out there holding all human knowledge, then maybe language is just sitting around some corner of those records out there on a different plane. People can access tiny, tiny parts of the Records through speaking, and each time a new language is developed, it's a new fragment of the Records being filtered out from that dimension into our reality. And what if a person can work through so much of this knowledge that they start reaching into other, more crucial parts of the Records? Stuff like actual stuff that will happen/is happening, the histories and actions of other individuals, previously unknown theories, so on and so forth? Kind of like how, if the Akashic Records is the "Universal Computer" then our language systems (la langue) are all part of a sub-sub-sub-sub folder named Files > Lol Humans > Human Knowledge > Language. Maybe if someone could dig through all the information lying around the Language folder, then they'll eventually reach the root that leads up to the larger folder of "Human Knowledge" and what if you could start browsing through that? sure it'd take AGES AND AGES AND AGES to go through it and find something useful (since you'd no doubt first stumble across bunches and bunches of useless crap like "how to make a banana split" or stuff like that), but what if you did find something that was actually revolutionary and that humans at the present time just haven't found yet? Genetic manipulation made easy, superintelligence, supernatural powers, so on and so forth. And you could possibly speed up the process of sifting through the junk in the Records if you had multiple people working in tandem working through the large folder until they stumble across a subfolder named "Human Evolution" or something. And --
and
and yeah.
Idek. ): I should probably be paying more attention in class instead of letting my thoughts wander wildly like this.