Saturday, November 13, 2010

Thr33

I've been thinking about this concept where you analyze things to three levels. My mind actually does this naturally and very quickly, which is kind of disturbing. Here's an example: I am thinking about cheese. Not sure why, just maybe I like cheese, or that it's from a yak. Probably both, but here I am thinking about cheese.

Then I realize, "Man, I've been thinking about cheese for 10 minutes now. That's weird." That's level one. Recognition and analyzing what you are thinking. Then there's the second level I always go to because I spend a lot of time on level 1. I start questioning how much time I'm analyzing my thoughts thinking, "wow, I think weird thoughts." Level two is an interesting place to be but just wait.

Now we come to level three. The third level. That platform in which lies hidden the blurry line of sanity. Ok, maybe that's a little dramatic. But here we are at number three. Analyzing how much you analyze the analysis. It really is quite twisted as I spend much time questioning how much I am doing this. Like I said, my mind does this naturally and generally very fast, at which time I almost forget what I was even originally thinking.

Yeah, now to go analyze why I even wrote this.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What Are They Saying?

There are many inanimate objects we wish could say things. Things like trees or walls or cars. But even if they could talk, would we be able to understand them? We are surrounded by talking objects through the magic of computer animation, but they usually talk in something resembling English or another intelligible language. But that's silly. It would seem natural to have them speak in languages inherent to their form, squeaks and whirs, creaks and whooshes.
There are things that can be said only in one language. The words and how they fit together convey something deeper that just doesn't work any other way. Expressing complete metal fatigue as a car in some car language could potentially be very profound and/or disturbing. It's kind of fun to imagine what a language of trees would be like and what they would even talk about. Course that's been done. Think Tolkien's Ents. But what about your house, or jeep, or the lawn gnome in the back?