Other genius: sharing the prodigy of those we know…

Estrella’s onto something here (see below). We have to give children a lot more than representational though (which actually assaults, co-opts, and overtakes their innate intelligence assets during early childhood). There are many assets I can table in this direction, particularly, however, the model of the ‘holophore’ is crucial. This is a root element in every language that has been damaged, distorted or destroyed by being ‘lossily compressed’ (iteratively re-flattened in the dimensions of meaning and relation) through generation after generation of abstraction more and more in the direction of structure or ‘pure representation’ (a rigid description that is easily manipulable in the languages of science or machines).

This process is deadly to our intelligence assets (which are unthinkably diverse and deep — and basically get amputated this way) and our minds themselves. Children (particularly during the ages of 3-6) undergo a series of assaults that essentially ‘reiterate’ the Biblical story of Cain and Abel (where Cain represents the Left Hemisphere’s language/abstraction aspect) and are effectively crippled by this.

Worse, since nearly no one is even aware of these processes, most of us will go through life both dominated by and unable to speak about or reverse the results. When we encounter someone capable of showing us these matters, we become re-empowered to address them together.

People who are multilingual experience some degree of natural ‘holophoric restoration’ because the root concepts involved get slightly ‘de-abstracted’ (eg: iteratively unflattened) by the ability of the multiglot to ‘triangulate’ meaning and metaphor from multiple angles.

This ‘restores referential and relational dimensionality’ to the holophores, which, in turn, enriches and anneals the mind’s relationships with language, knowledge, representation, metaphor and meaning.

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“The onset of language, which gives way, after a few years, to navel-gazing discourses, triggers a process of self-absorption that I picture like crippling an octopus by creasing its tentacles so that they feel reassured only when they stay close to its mouth and anus.

We must dare harnessing language. Dare projecting not our self(ves), but our consciousness.

The multiple perspective that a hyperglot can achieve is a metaphor, that lacks panache, for what the experience of exerting ubiquity feels like. However, tongues of fire whispered that it’s one of the ways.”

— @[100005573863076:2048:Estrella Chang]

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