Inexplicable Weird Feeling About Some Random Words

Dr_Toad said:
How, please?
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Strange as it may seem,
MARIO LIVIO: Now, what that means is that, in principle, I could drop this needle millions of times. I could count the times when it crosses a line and when it doesn't cross a line, and I could actually even calculate Pi. Even though there are no circles here, no diameters of a circle, nothing like that. It's really amazing.
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NARRATOR: Since Pi relates a round object—a circle—with a straight one—its diameter—it can show up in the strangest of places. Some see it in the meandering path of rivers. A river's actual length, as it winds its way from its source to its mouth, compared to the direct distance, on average seems to be about Pi
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html
 
Dr_Toad said:
I'm not going read the whole thread, but, wow. So many of y'all are children.

Synesthesia is fairly common. Most people suppress it because it can be a hindrance in hunting and gathering, but on feast night, with the magical herbs or mushrooms, it's a celebration that just might result in more cerebration.

Just my opinion, perhaps warranted. Your mileage may vary...
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I'm awed and fascinated by the marvelous and mysterious ways of how the brain can process external stimuli of all kinds.

And of course I am a great fan of Anil Seth who distinguishes mental perception as controlled and uncontrolled "hallucinations", and makes a persuasive case along with some remarkable examples from personal experience.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality

This is why I am intrigued by Hameroff's and Penrose's proposition that the micro-tubules in the brain are actually tiny little quantum computers which are able to process and translate all forms of energetic "information" as specific kinds of "bings" (wave collapse phenomena).

And Hameroff's scientific explanation of the actual wave collapse in the micro-tubules of the brain.

There are some surprising philosophical implications in these viewpoints.
 
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And biological. Much to think about, and thank you.

Maybe that's why some fungi and some plants do that, to protect their children.

We just happened to stumble on those that have similar neuroreceptors to the one we rely on for every life.

Parties are a special occasion, and you need lifeguards if you're going beyond the breakwater. I've been a passenger and a pilot when I was older, but I'm younger than that now.
 
StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
I am probably 1 of the few best spellers on this planet but sometimes when I look at a word, it does not seem right to me. Sometimes I look it up & confirm it is correct. Sometimes I do not as much need to look it up yet the feeling persists. Usually they are ordinary words not related to each other.
Anyone else experience this?

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yes, i experienced that also. but, it's a good way that we learn a new word always.
 
For some reason, the word ''similar'' is one such word. Every now and then, I'll spell it like this --> "similiar'' with three i's, not just two. And when I spell it correctly, it still doesn't look quite right to me. Hmm.

There are a few additional words that on occasion, I'll struggle with - but that one word ...s-i-m-i-l-a-r ...taunts me :oops:
 
wegs said:
For some reason, the word ''similar'' is one such word. Every now and then, I'll spell it like this --> "similiar'' with three i's, not just two. And when I spell it correctly, it still doesn't look quite right to me. Hmm.
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Perhaps you're visually rhyming it with familiar?
 
Whenever I hear Blind Melon's No Rain (the girl in the bee costume), I hear it as

I just want someone to say to me, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheating stragedy
So stay with me and I'll have it made

And it took me while of turning the word over in my heard to figure out what was wrong with it.


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Committee commitment committed

Okay, whew. I just posted these without error. But, it doesn't always happen that way. I'm staring at ''committed'' though, and it just feels wrong.
 
if a word can define an emotion
can an emotion define a word
if linguistics has mathematical principals
can mathematical principals have linguistic influence
if numbers have sounds
do sounds have numbers
when you say a number do you feel a sound
when you feel a sound do you feel a number

different people learn and process different ways
collective learning tends to coerce pathways to assert collective influential meaning to then assign collective association.

to be part of the group we must compromise
this compromise is called language
all the other compromises continue from there
 
my latest fascination(past few years) has been with the word "ugly" and how it is used and for what purposes.

it seems to have quite an odd interface with social communication

may i just point out the sound of the start of the word invokes quite a guttural sound which is emotive in associative context to assert a sense of emotional pre-determination of assumed meaning.

i can not think of any other words that start with the Ug' sound.

it is my speculation that because of this the word takes on its own emotive license.
 
RainbowSingularity said:
may i just point out the sound of the start of the word invokes quite a guttural sound which is emotive in associative context to assert a sense of emotional pre-determination of assumed meaning.
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It's an ugly word.

So is "grotesque". Maybe "hideous".
 
Sanguine

The definition (showing optimism despite bad circumstances) doesn’t match up to the way this word sounds, for me. It sounds like it would mean the opposite. :rolleye:
 
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