[percy-l] End of homo loquens?

honeyjbc1 . honeyjbc at gmail.com
Sun May 10 12:04:22 EDT 2020


In my comment I meant "no longer" but my helpful phone spellchecker changed
it to need longer.

Are we already on the way when communication is so often by texting? I go
out to lunch and too often a conversation is inhibited because someone is
texting instead of conversing.

Me I love to talk.

On Sun, May 10, 2020, 11:22 AM Charles Lowry <lowry.charles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only reason some of us are still alive (or still in a relationship or
> still employed or or still able to shop at a particular bakery or pharmacy
> or hardware store) is that there is a difference between homo loquens and
> homo cogitans.  The best interrogators and the best negotiators have been
> able to thrive by blurring the line between homo loquens and homo
> cogitans.  How soon before Musk’s development goes from “Let me tell you
> telepathically what I want you to know” to “No need to say a thing; I have
> access to your thoughts”?  St. Thomas Aquinas relentlessly insisted that in
> this life all elements of the person were inseparable.  When that changes,
> when significant chunks of human interaction can be carried out without a
> physical component, what else changes?  At my age it is no sure thing that
> I’ll be here to see any changes in five years, let alone ten, but I think
> I’ll just keep talking as long as I can.
>
> Or did they, long before Elon Musk and St. Thomas, have this same
> conversation when writing was invented?
>
> Chuck Lowry
> Brooklyn, New York
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 10, 2020, at 10:56 AM, honeyjbc1 . <honeyjbc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> It seems we might not lose much if he would need longer talk to others.
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:21 AM Marcus Smith <marcus at loyno.edu> wrote:
>
>> Elon Musk says speech and human language in final years.
>>
>>
>> https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-joe-rogan-podcast-language-neuralink-grimes-baby-a9506451.html
>>
>> Musk seems as big a narcissist as Trump, but Percy would have read the
>> article and had something to say.  Can’t begin to guess what he would have
>> said.
>>
>> Why do I recall Umberto Eco’s definition of the “sign”?  Anything that
>> can be used to tell a lie.
>>
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