The following biographical sketch is provided courtesy of the Institute of General Semantics. Charlotte Schuchardt Read The world into which Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3,1879, in Warsaw, Poland, […]
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Remember Martin Luther
Reposted from Strike The Root. Craig Russell The cheap, commercial luridness of October 31 here in the United States almost totally obscures an event of immense proportions, an event that […]
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Our focus on Alfred Korzybski continues with this essay written near the end of his life. Thanks to the European Society for General Semantics. Alfred Korzybski I AM deeply honored […]
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Thanks to the European Society for General Semantics, we are pleased to publish Alfred Korzybski’s second paper on Time-binding: The General Theory. Originally published in 1925, it was written in […]
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Alfred Korzybski defined humans as Time-binders in 1921. The following paper was published in 1924. It is reposted from the European Society for General Semantics. Alfred Korzybski ALL HUMAN knowledge is conditioned […]
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Reposted from The New Farm. Lisa M. Hamilton “Of all the things we have done to the earth, agriculture has caused the most devastation.” It’s a controversial statement, to say […]
Continue readingTime-Binding Ethics
Alfred Korzybski defined humans as Time-binders in 1921. Korzybski explained that the power of Time-binding is to understand—to observe and remember change over time. Our human ability to understand comes from the […]
Continue readingReversing Global Warming
Reposted from the New York Times. Kenneth Chang Suppose that over the next decade or two the forecasts of global warming start to come true. Color has drained from New England’s […]
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A Synergic Thought Experiment … The Human Wisdom Organization “Try to imagine yourself a few years from now. You are in an airplane traveling towards a unique place on Earth. […]
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Natural Gas Crisis
Reposted from Energy Resources Yahoo! Group. Kermit Schlansker At the present time we are sitting on the edge of catastrophe. We are using 22 trillion cu ft of gas/year. Since […]
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