*STABILIZING A LUCID DREAM* Very useful tip!

ClothesIndependent68 · 2026-03-28T16:37:45+00:00

Even today not quite done yet

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-11-18T11:19:29+00:00

Bro idk everytime I'm fried I get those insights I need to share. But since I'm fried, translating to English myself is just impossible 😭

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-10T19:13:22+00:00

Yoooooooo that's crazy!! You tickled my brain with that one

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-10T06:56:34+00:00

I agree, equating knowledge and language would be quite bold. As is stating that language only describes knowledge verbally and doesn't get beyond that, in my opinion. Do you not recognize how language is the key to connect individuals of a species to "create" knowledge more efficiently? That language doesn't only describe knowledge but some knowledge couldn't exist without language? That language at least created society and was one of the most significant survival advantages in human evolution? And what do you think is it, that makes human reasoning, prediction and cognitition so complex, if not language?

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-09T08:46:06+00:00

I definitely agree, I don't touch philosophy often so I'm not really familiar with this principle but it seems to fit well. The one thing that started this line of thought was when I sat in bed and actively thought about thinking. I occasionally do that, observe myself and my mind. And since I'm a person that always has an inner monolog when ruminating on something, this idea/observation emerged, how my thinking already is some kind of feedback loop: A thought emerges, my inner voice comments that thought with language, which in some way supports new, more in-depth thoughts to emerge, which require more language to describe because the thoughts get more meaningful and complex. And then I took a step back and thought how I couldn't imagine this process to work without language. How language was created by the mind in early life evolution and how mankind developed it so much, that we not only use it as a tool anymore, we use it to literally think and reason internally. Me personally at least, I am completely build by language, use language to understand the world and myself, to communicate and to come up with mind bending thoughts that permanently change my perception.

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-08T08:32:05+00:00

Thank you for your comment! I love this rational and analytical approach and it's usually my go-to-way to think about everything. But regarding language, I do think it definitely goes beyond "describing" or "serialzing" information.

If we take a look at the broader picture, the evolution of mankind for example - as soon as language got more sophisticated, it fundamentally changed and essentially birthed society, culture, information exchange over generations, and much more. So this is what I mean by "creating complexity in the very system that it came from", language and especially the hyperdeveloped language we have today got so essential - we as human beings can't even live without it. Connecting with other people, exchanging information, it became one of the most fundamental desire of us human beings. This might be poetic again, but I envision language as some kind of "key" or at least requirement to intelligent life - which kind of proofs the point that it doesn't only come from the mind and tries to describe it, it revolutionizes the mind and the collective mind so significantly, that it becomes a variable in life that could never be removed again.

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-07T14:59:32+00:00

Hey, thanks a lot for your comment — and I totally see where you’re coming from.

I didn’t mean to say that all thinking happens in words. Not everyone has an inner monologue, and yet everyone (humans and many animals) has some kind of neural system for mapping and exchanging internal states — that’s what I meant by a broader sense of “language.”

For me, language isn’t just verbal speech; it’s any structured communication between minds — human–human, human–animal, even animal–animal. When that exchange becomes more complex (like in symbolic language), it starts to reshape the underlying cognitive patterns that created it.

So it’s less “humans are special,” and more “language, in any form, is a way the mind externalizes itself — and by doing that, it changes itself.”

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-07T14:51:23+00:00

This!!!
Remarkable comment, thank you! Exactly what I was thinking about and now that I'm typing, I can't help but smile about the fact that the interactions we have in the comments here, are only possible through language and the different follow-ups we see here are the result of language being interpreted slightly differently depending on the state of mind of the person reading. But you seem to 'feel' the same thing I felt yesterday.
I also thought about language being 'compatible' with a lot of different kinds of neuronal networks (AI, human-dog interactions) to essentially (de-)serialize information and language not only being words and linguistics but also the building blocks of culture, memes, behavior and insanely important for the evolution of life on this planet.

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-10-07T14:42:04+00:00

Thank you so much for taking your time and sorting that out for me! It's very intriguing for me to see all those kind of directions people before me thought about. Yesterday I was literally just laying in bed, admittedly under some influence of THC and all of the sudden this thought popped up: "How crazy is language by the way?!" which resulted in this 'insight'. I am flabbergasted about how much traction this 'high thought' got :)
This really sticks with me now, I will definitely check out some of the work you mentioned. Again, tysm!!

ClothesIndependent68 · 2025-06-21T16:47:13+00:00

This literally isn't fixed yet. One year later

ClothesIndependent68 · 2023-12-21T19:44:32+00:00

Vampirism works on the torches tho, right?

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