A quick scraping of a seemingly popular line of thinking, observations and considerations I posted elsewhere; pulled together here.
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by #NoamChomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical, ... Of course these things are not metaphysical contemplations of #philosophers - they are the concrete domain of #science, of #linguists ... perhaps with all things, there is still mystery to solve. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. -#Buddah e.g. The melancholy flavors ran slowly forward to yesterday. A bursting restraint calling sweet threats of a blinding darkness; caged with freedom. not only will your mind make sense where there is none - it can apply deep meaning, from intentional nonsense... Anyone that understands language - understands that this is a trick that is fun to use on the #human mind - for science, but mostly #art. your brain will try to make sense of statements that do not make sense - it is quite a wonderful quality of the human mind. e.g. Green dreams jump motionless in a scream of silence. You see; this is a jumble of words - but your #mind, and #language - will try to create meaning. I should rather like to make a book of non-sense; fully reviewed to say I mean things I never mean to say. rules of non-sense are rather easy in theory ... Use shape, on shapeless things. Give color, to the colorless. Give size, to things without size. Give action, to things with no action. Use personification on abstract concepts. Put opposites into alignment. Make impossible statements. etc the point here is - if I can truly author a writing that is mathematically and logically generated in such a way to be random (blind), and without meaning... such to ensure anyone who has found meaning, is simply providing a #projection of themselves. to explain - if you are interviewing a machine driven mind (#philisophical construct) ... if you give it a random, meaningless set of grammar... as it searches itself for the meaning, it will reveal its own lack of ability to create meaning. double sum up - a robotic mind cannot have the mind of a human yet ... because the mind of a human, in its very nature... is one that generates meaning, among other abstract meaningless* things ... without anyone knowing, certainly*, how it does it. The human mind does this certainly without being accurate or specific ("truthful") in any reality (necessarily) - it is simply a process your mind goes through that you can hardly prevent, and you can certainly focus on. And by #projecting the meaning you find, in something without meaning, is - in itself - meaningful; and a building block for identifying and studying a feature of the evolution of the mind (and language).
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