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hernanlg@diasp.org
HernanLG

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

I have been thinking about this for a while. We now know that time is in reality something probably very different to our perception of time. Each animal with cognition has developed some cognitive mechanism to perceive time, but because the environmental pressure is different for every animal, they all developed different perceptions of time.

In the case of humans, time (or its passing) seem to be noticeable in most phenomena. If I move, for example, I notice how time passes as/while I move. If I think, I also think across time. If I eat, or if I meditate.... these are all activities that allow the perception of the passing of time.

Senses seem to be immediate though. If something makes a sound, I do not perceive the passing of time between the source of the sound and its perception. Same with vision, smell, touch and taste.

However, notice that when it comes to meaningful linguistic stimulation, be it by means of acoustic or visual means, we do not experience additional time in the extraction of content from the input. Let me break this down:

  1. We know that it actually takes time from sound and light to travel from its source to our sense organs, and that it takes more time for us to transform these vibrations into electrical activity that results in sound/visual perception.
  2. 1 above is true for meaningless sounds. In the case of meaningful stimuli, it is also obvious that content extraction from the stimulus must necessarily take more time than the time needed to process meaningless sensory stimulation.

It thus follows that sound and light perception take time, and that whatever time this takes, it is less than the time it takes to extract meaning out of sound and light.

However, we do not perceive the passing of time at all when we do processing language. When we process language, we experience it automatically. If you are talking to someone, there is no perceived time between the perception of the act that originates the stimulus (visual presentation of a sentence, or articulatory activity of a speaker) and the comprehension of the content conveyed by the physical stimulus.

This makes me think that time perception in humans might have taken the time it takes humans to process language as the "zero" point of human time perception. Whatever lasts less than language processing, is also not perceived, and whatever lasts more than language processing, can be perceived across time.

This results in empirical predictions. I will now go check the research on the threshold of conscious time perception in humans to see what is known to this day, and to see whether someone has made the link with language processing before.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

#freedom #speech #Chomsky

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Noam Chomsky

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Orwell

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-04), “Politics and the English Language,” Horizon Magazine

#quote #quotes #quotation #euphemism #politics #writing #justification #speech #vagueness
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/orwell-george/72718/

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Stop misusing Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerence’ in free speech debates. | by giggs boson | Medium

#politics #freedom #speech #disinformation

As you can see this is a very different argument than the cartoon gives us. Popper is clearly referring to those who refuse to debate their ideas**, and instead want to use violence and force to supress debate and speech.

https://giggsboson.medium.com/stop-misusing-poppers-paradox-of-tolerence-in-free-speech-debates-6f6ab4b8f0d3

Stop misusing Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerence’ in free speech debates.

You may have seen this image on Twitter whenever someone, usually of the leftist persuasion, wants to counter someone of the unlimited…

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

You CAN shout “fire” in a crowded theatre

#politics #freedom #speech #censorship

The cliché that “you can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre” originates in the 1917 United States Supreme Court ruling against Charles Schenck, a socialist who had issued a broadside calling for young men to refuse military conscription and was convicted under the Espionage Act. These were the circumstances under which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the statement: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting ‘Fire!’ in a theatre and causing a panic.” Note that the word “falsely” is invariably dropped when quoted by advocates for censorship.

https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/you-can-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theatre

You CAN shout “fire” in a crowded theatre

Tim Walz repeated the pro-censorship cliché during last night’s vice-presidential debate. It’s about time it was put to rest.

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

My Speech in Washington: "Rescue the Republic"

#politics #freedom #speech

Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.

https://www.racket.news/p/my-speech-in-washington-rescue-the

My Speech in Washington: "Rescue the Republic"

Freedom of speech isn't just a legal right, but a way of life. On its history

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

Well said!

Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.

♲ Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT

#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.

My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.

We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.

My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.

Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.

Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.

The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.

Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.

Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.

The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.

Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.

You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.

Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.

At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.

Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.

I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.

Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.

The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.

Free Palestine!

Ms. Que Banh (@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party)

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sol_o_o_l@diaspora.psyco.fr
sol_o_o_l

Dmitry Medvedev's Speech On Russia's Strategic Borders

#Dmitry #Medvedev 's #Speech On #Russia 's #Strategic #Borders

"One may not like Russia or even feel hostile towards its current policies and leadership.

But that should not hinder one to recognize and acknowledge how Russia is seeing itself and it defines its own role in the wider world.

The former Russian president Dimitry Medvedev is currently the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia recently spoke about multiple definitions of borders."

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nowisthetime@pod.automat.click
nowisthetime

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uGCtyISRcRw
(8:10)
#birth #death
"No one in the town of Gracie Fields will ever again be able to say they were #born in #Rochdale unless, unfortunately, in a taxi on the way to Bury or on the way to Oldham. We don't even have a postcode. This town, which was once one of the most prosperous in England, is now one of the poorest. Abandoned not just by the government, but abandoned by the mayor of Greater Manchester. Imagine a town where you can't be born. Imagine a town where you can't die.

I garnered more votes than the Conservatives, than Labour, than the Liberal Democrats, than the Reform Party. I just want to say that having given both parties a good spanking on the 29 February, I've got my boots on to give them a good kicking anytime I catch your eye here."

Not a big turnout for #GeorgeGalloway's maiden #speech in Parliament, which speaks volumes. No mention of #Palestine either, except a short reference at the beginning, where he pays tribute to a former MP of Rochdale, Tony Lloyd.