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Heavy stuff by Mr Baudrate. But of course so-called reality is always an individual construct from sensory inputs codified by everything constructed before, in the process of distinguishing signal from noise - which we think ourselves to be rather good at. We are quite good at it since we've been training since the womb. So good, sometimes, that instead of codifying the actual inputs, (eg zen awareness), we substitute 'nessness' i.e. we don't see the trees that are there (if they are unimportant to our activity), we recall treeness.

This is not so far from putting simulated trees in a simulated digital environment.  It is only the detection of novelty that moves us to more accurately codify a particular experience. Novelty rewards. It should be called the 'dessert of reality itself'.

I am not myself a user of 'pants' as an expression of ???. But it is a novelty... for the moment.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 12:47:18 PM EST
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Use of "oh pants" tracked by ET site Google.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:21:54 PM EST
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Tahnks, Mig!

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:31:19 PM EST
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I am inclined to believe that the expression 'pants' is directly related to the aspirations of the 'sans-culottes'. ET is a hotbed of such revolutionary sartorialness.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:55:38 PM EST
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no, Watson.
pants(!) is a sanitary expletive, solution to a recent moderator advisory. In CR threads, "hot bed" of illiterate digital communication technology, commenters deploy the [brown pant] icon.

Do try to keep up.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 04:14:36 PM EST
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Thank you, madame, I shall endeavour to remain acquainted with the argot.

But I think you have your etymologies intertwining like a pit of coral snakes coated in wild vaseline. 'Brown pants' and 'Oh pants', though conceivably connected, nevertheless have emerged from two different lines of social thought. You have to remember that the definition of 'pants' in your fair island, and in my enormous continent, differs.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 04:23:12 PM EST
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May the Urban Dictionary restore international understanding.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 05:02:21 PM EST
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So many uses, so little time. Like herding snakes in a reef or something.

Tnahks you, Mig!


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:31:41 PM EST
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Two different lines of social thought. Among English speakers.
O RLY?
You have been [CR-17] [Wright Model B] [I'm shocked,to find gambling going on here] [Prozac] warned.
Accept Icon Fluency as your savior.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:18:42 PM EST
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o svenki. Size doesn't matter. The "real" story is the Statistical Atlas of the 9th US Census. yes, illustrated; scroll to image #35, for example of intellectual history of national income accounting before Kuznets.

BTW, anybody know where to locate share/freeware JP2K reader for mac?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:30:08 PM EST
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I can just imagine Sven's expletive (not "pants") if some client claimed that in reality they HAD already paid, despite Sven's claim that they hadn't, after all, THEY thought they had and "of course so-called reality is always an individual construct from sensory inputs codified by everything constructed before, in the process of distinguishing signal from noise"  

:-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:21:00 PM EST
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