is blogging art?
i’ll be away in washington dc for a few days. which means i may not post for a while (big freakin deal, i know).
i’ve thought and said before that humans have an infinite capacity for novelty…
a phrase which occurs only 3 times in google’s index (of the web).
the first in the middle of someone’s notes on postmodernism:
Postmodernity, therefore, borrows its understanding of reason from technology:the second in a document about psychological love types:* “the dialectic of needs and means,
* an indifference to origins,
* the postulation of an infinite capacity for novelty,
* and the legitimation by superior power.”
Intuitives:and the third in a paper by Steven Greenberg entitled “On the origins of speech intelligibility in the real world“The intuitive is the opposite of the sensation person. Intuitives cannot be bothered with details, and are concerned only with perceiving the whole, with having great insights, and with unlimited creativity. They will often start projects that never get finished in detail. Sudden insights and creative ideas out of the blue are their forte. Scientists, therapists, and psychics are among the ranks of the intuitives. The intuitive is always focused on the future, in anticipation; the present is never good enough; the past is quickly forgotten. They are inventive lovers with an infinite capacity for novelty.
Despite the seemingly infinite capacity for novelty in linguistic discourse, most of the words expressed derive from an extremely restricted lexical pool. This tendency towards predictability provides a relatively stable statistical framework with which to interpret the high-information-content words.
