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Of course the idea of a mind separate from a body is also a fallacy.
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As always well put. I nowadays tend to avoid constructing sentences with “is”. I’ve also always tend to avoid reifications: using a noun – or thing – where one’s talking about processes. So I prefer communicating over communication, organizing over organization. All ready in my thesis at university I showed “information” doesn’t exist, only processes of informing, and that this means asking good questions and not having the right data. I barley passed ;-).
While working in information system design (sic), i used to say that people use the word ‘system’ when they don’t understand how something works. For a long time, I called my approach “systemic” and was only once asked what I meant with it. “I don’t know”, I replied, “but I always get away with it”.
I now go one step further: the structure of our use of language, the grammar, prevent us from expressing what we’re thinking about, making us think we’re thinking in language. (We’re thinking metaphorical in metaphors or imagining images, projecting projections) Our language has a “command-and-control”-structure, reinforcing double-binds (Bateson) preventing one to question the structure of our use of language.
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Excellent, Jan!
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