Re: Actionable

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Lauren wrote:
>> From: Ned Bedinger
> 
>> Some people think the number 5 is yellow.  This is a sign of 
>> synaesthesia, a mental crossing over of the senses, which in 
>> the case of 
>> words seems to add dimensions of meaning that not everyone shares.
> 
> Do you realize that 5 can neither be yellow nor not yellow because there are
> no physical representations of numbers or colors?  Numbers are symbols and
> colors are perceptions, but neither are things.

What's worse is that the mind can't model a negative condition, so it 
needs the yellow five to be there so it can say it isn't there.  Thhhbbt.

> 
>> So.  It isn't a chart, it is an X,Y graph. If you didn't learn that 
>> along the way, it isn't to late to do so now.
> 
> When I wrote "chart," I visualized a graph.  I got preoccupied envisioning
> employees driving up a winding road to a learn a new job.  Hey, at least I
> corrected "their" with "they're."

OK, but now I see the appeal of the long, winding, treacherous road. 
Motorcycle, here I come.


Did you guess already?  I'm a kinetic learner.

>  
>> Very happy, but then I have been all day anyway, but thanks 
>> for asking. 
>> And how are you?
> 
> Oh, crappy.  Client's not paying me, kitties are mad because I had them
> fixed today, chickens are tearing up my yard so I can't plant my vegetables
> without putting up a fence that I don't feel like doing, but it's just a
> perceptual crappiness because overall, things are great.  I think I feel
> orange, today.

OMG, yardbirds.  Home, home on the range! Eat 'em, be done with it.

> 
> Lauren


As your name scanned into my peripheral vision (and boy do I need 
computer glasses), I thought it said "Lemon", and my mind's eye 
responded with a symbol, the lemonest of yellow lemons.

Hope I'm not going crazy, but it seems like fun to watch my mind work.

Havw fun,

--Ned





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