Another great conversation
Thursday, 4 October 2007 by Joscelynn TomawJoscelynn: Why do some people just not care if things are true or not? I just don’t understand that mentality.
Jacob: I think the difference is that you and I are introverts, so we don’t like to say a lot. But some people are extroverts and they like to say a lot of things and so some of it is true and some of it isn’t.
Joscelynn: I could see that. Most of the time I feel like I just shouldn’t say anything unless I can put a big QED at the end. I don’t always get it right, but I’d like to think I’d set things straight if it’s not.
Jacob (Imagine this very emphatic with lots of jesturing from the forehead): Extroverts are just streaming. . . but not like stream of consciousness. . . like your thoughts are at the back of your brain and your language is at the front of your brain, and they’re not streaming from the back to the front, they’re streaming all off the front, its just language. Stream of consciousness is like having multiple applications open and you’re looking at all the windows at once. Extroverts are just XML, there’s no content.
Joscelynn: Did you read about this somewhere?
Jacob: No, I’m making it up.
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October 5th, 2007 at 5:08
First, to be clear I am not dividing the world into two groups. Most people are ‘normal’ who swing between intro- and extro-vertness, but with a tendency to one way or the other.
‘Stream of Language’ is all content void of context, which really makes the content pointless. It is just words that you only think you can form into thoughts. When you hear or read an extreme extrovert you only think they are making sense because of the human brains amazing capacity to find patterns. You hear words and you think ‘oh they must be saying something’. This is the reaction we often have to random environmental knows that we want to turn into music in our heads; Or when we anthropomorphize the barks or meows.
Just like there is a profound difference between hearing and listening. There is a difference between talking and saying something.