From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Alfred Korzybski ad nauseum
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:28:30 -0500
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:26:51 -0500 (EST), "S.K. Harrison"
<skh23ca@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Korzybski's masterwork is titled Science and
>Sanity: An Introduction to Non-aristotelian
>Systems and General Semantics. A dense volume
>with 800 pages of small type, he loaded it with
>material from the sciences of his time, including
>classical and quantum physics, colloidal
>chemistry, calculus and other higher math,
>neurology, psychiatry, epistemology, education,
>history of philosophy and much else.
>
>In the early 20th century, he synthesized into a
>system observations from the latest data of these
>sciences, declared the result "a unified science
>of man" [genderism noted], and named this system
>general semantics.
>I could blather on forever about this stuff--it
>turns my crank even more than pc. If my
>description has stimulated your interest,
>Lawrence, I encourage you to investigate it
>before you do even one more thing.
Other topics of interest, among many, covered in depth by Steve Diver
at Attra:
beneficial soil microorganisms
aquaponics
phenology http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/