[Neurons] can good intentions be bad? ....REPLY

[Tony S]

From:Tony Stender
tonysr at gmail.com

RE: "Can a good intention be bad"

Hi All,

Good is a modifier it requires a reference to that which is good.

It also infers good for what and good to whom.

This points out a common error.

Our communication is sent from a specific personal explicit set of reference
memories.

It is encoded using concepts (words with assorted definitions) which while
seeming at first blush to be explicit, are in fact really implicit. That is
the meaning is inferred.

When the message is received it is then decoded back into explicit pictures,
and other sensory data. After which it is contextualized in order to extract
the relationship that the message has to the receiver. We call this making
meaning.

This process is a bit tricky and rife with possibilities for
misunderstanding!

In addition the process is unconscious because we have long ago automated
the process. So we are for the most part unaware of this process.

Yes, good by what reference (standard) is the right question.

I suspect that these folks might have different definitions about what is
good and for whom. The Pope, Hitler, Obama, George Bush, You and I.

Context is everything. It creates the basis for making meaning from a
communication and is the source of meaning for that which is communicated.

All communication is sent with a context in mind which is rarely the
enviornment into which it is received.

We are all individuals with unique one of a kind set of experiences which we
hold as memories (context). No two are alike. In addition, we can never know
the contents of another persons contextual memories.

Often we ASSUME that we share contexts when we try to communicate. Rarely is
this assumption totally correct.

Comments welcome

Tony Stender
tonysr at gmail.com


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I Encode into Concepts, then I Recode as Spoken or Written, Implicit,
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I SUBMIT TO Your eyes or ears to be decoded back into concepts from your
Explicit memories created by Your Explicit existence in your Explicit,
environment.
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