{"id":30377,"date":"2019-11-30T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=30377"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T10:47:39","slug":"a-world-without-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2019\/11\/30\/a-world-without-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A world without words."},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s a fat pigeon sitting in a tree behind my house.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s probably unaware of being a bird, or full-figured.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I tend to believe that animals don\u2019t use concepts and descriptions.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sounds obvious, but the implications are strong.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What would a world without words look like?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What would you see if you didn\u2019t have a name for what you are looking at?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How can you experience life if you don\u2019t even realize that you are living it?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I think about these things.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When I look at the cats that live with me, curled up on the coach, stretching, yawning, then going back to sleep, I sometimes feel a little envy.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They are so utterly free of responsibility and worry and things like contemplating a scary future or a painful past.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the only way to truly appreciate that would be if you have a direct experience with the workings of the human mind.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You need the concepts, the constructs, the thinking.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The contrast.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Holidays feel better after hard work.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sleeping in is amazing because of the early mornings you weren\u2019t allowed to.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A steady week is so much more profound after a month of sadness and worry.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How does a cat feel about its life?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Well, let\u2019s ask him after he grabbed the fat pigeon.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s a fat pigeon sitting in a tree behind my house. It\u2019s probably unaware of being a bird, or full-figured. I tend to believe that animals don\u2019t use concepts and descriptions. Sounds obvious, but the implications are strong. What would a world without words look like? What would you see if you didn\u2019t have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30383,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions\/30383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}