Monday, September 21, 2015
jill botle taylor
How can you say you have experienced life if you haven't opened your mind with all the thoughts that go through your head? Jill Bolte Taylor could have had something bad happened to her with the stroke but instead she experienced something that 99.9% of the world would love to experience, and that was; she saw a different view that she had never seen before. In her words she says she was in "lala land". It made her realize that the little things in life are so much important after this and it made her into a bigger person after she recovered. So it made realize if I don't appreciate the small things in life and sometimes i don't. Watching this video made me think a little on how life is about now. Anything can happen to you in any moment. So try to think bigger and live in the moment. In the poem that Robert Hass writes about is very interesting. I understood what he was trying to say that language doesnt have to words that other people have to understand. It could be something that you know or relate to you. So in this poem is he saying how things remind him over certain things. I can relate too that, because certain things i hear make me think of a certain place or person I may came across.
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Language is a very chief principle in the way we communicate and live every day. It gives us concepts to our surrounding and to our experiences. But language can also limit us to our own internal being. For example when Jill Taylor lost her ability to do language she was able to drift out of our shared reality and was able to let her spirit go into a world of bliss. So if language fails so what, since if it fails you go to a blissful world. Well even to you get this sense of bliss from the absence of language it is still in heavy need to collaborate ideas, and concept. Language is still a must for humans to further evolve and to further become more than just animals. Language is the very reason why humans are the ruling species in the world. With out language humans would not differ from animals.
ReplyDeleteJill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that caused her to go through what she described as "lala land". She realized that she should not live life without noticing the little things, since they are much more important that she originally thought. Watching this video, it made me realize how little I pay attention to the little things in life. I think by listening to her story, I won't have to actually have a stroke like she did to realize this, and instead can take advice from her. Robert Hass also brings up a good point, that language doesn't necessarily need to be understood by a widespread amount of people to be considered language. I think he was trying to show that certain words bring up certain memories more so than the meaning of the actual word, but no one else will have those same memories what thinking of that word. I understand where he is coming from because similarly, there are words that remind me of certain things I've done or people I've met, but to someone else who hears that same word, it would simply be the denotative meaning.
ReplyDeleteyou asked how can a person say you have experienced life if you haven't opened your mind with all the thoughts that go through your head but I don't believe a single person can open their mind to all thoughts going though their mind because, as LONI (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging) research says an average person has 70,000 thoughts a day, which is about 49 thoughts a minute. So how do you process or open your brain to all thoughts? The answer is you can't because no one can actually fully comprehend a thought in less than two seconds or you might not even remember it the next second. Like me for example, I sometimes call on someone for something incredibly important but by the time i get their attention i will completely forget what it was. Or how about you try and count at least 15 thoughts you had in the last minute, you most likely can't. Also i must be one of the few .1 percent of people who would not want to experience what Jill Bolte Taylor experience through her stroke because it scares me to not be able to communicate and understand the difference between reality and fictional and i don't see how going through that process can help you see a "bigger picture." Like for example, if you don't know happiness how do you know your happy.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jill Bolte Taylor underwent her stroke and experienced "lala land," she described the absence of language in her head to be relaxing and a feeling of euphoria. I agree with Taylor's claim that the absence of language can be a good thing...to an extent. Language is still necessary for people to communicate more in depth with one another. It is true that there can be effective communication without vocal language. Yes, language comes in different forms, not just in the exchange of words. However, by using words to communicate, we are able to really understand one another and know what we feel.
ReplyDeleteNirvana and Euphoria are the words that Jill Bolte used to describe what she felt going through the stroke that changed her whole perspective on how she views the world. You asked "How can you say you have experienced life if you haven't opened your mind with all the thoughts that go through your head?" Well I believe the answer is lying all throughout Bolte's speech, we have to be at peace with ourselves in other words Nirvana. Although people spend years trying to reach Nirvana some even their whole life it is worth the wait, to feel the euphoria of not having that little voice in your head. Without that little voice in our heads just like Jill emphasizes in her speech "la la land" she felt euphoric. The only thing stopping us from being open-minded is ourselves. For example according to Buddhist to reach Nirvana you have to have 3 things which are wisdom, ethical conduct, and mental discipline. With those three things they believe we can all do it, and basically it is learning how to control our minds. In the other hand Robert Hass points out a point which I completely agree with him and it is that language is not needed to communicate. They always say actions speak louder than words because its true. The way you act can let a person know how you truly feel, we don't need language to express our emotions. But since our society is set up in a way were communication is key it is quite impossible for a mass of people to stop using a sort of language.
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