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Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
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KORZYBSKI WROTE IN SCIENCE & SANITY that "without the consciousness of abstracting, we all become nearly helpless and hopeless semantic victims of a primitive-made language and its underlying structural metaphysics." On our cover this issue we present a work titled "Consciousness as a strange attractor" by Krystyna Laycraft, theoretical physicist and visual artist. Some of us might think that general semantics qualifies as a "strange attractor," since you never know what odd string of circumstances might lead to someone "discovering" general semantics.

In this issue, we introduce Lance Strate, the Institute's new Acting Executive Director. Lance starts off the issue with an Executive Director's Message to the membership. Later in...



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