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I've been hawking Hypertext Webster for just about as long as I've been on the net. I've followed this resource through a couple of host moves, and taken every opportunity to talk up this wonderful, wonderful place to check your words. But part of what I've always loved about this site is the juxtaposition of the faintly archaic 1913 Webster listings with the clearly modern, and possibly less authoritative WordNet.
So I'm writing this morning, trying to get a little more content in the ling_wars category, because, well, dammit I've been talking about it enough, and it really is a rich and wonderful fun book. I like to link heavily in these blog posts, and I do actually perform the occasional fact check (that's what started the fireworks on cogling, a simple attempt at a simple fact check.) I've looked up my Einstein quote, and am now trying to get a quick read on Skinner. Normally it'd be off to wikipedia, but just last night I learned about google operators, specifically the define operator, so I asked google to define Skinnerian for me. The only two links that came up were both cogsci.princeton.edu; figured that couldn't be all bad. So I clicked through and found myself at a WordNet-only listing. Where the Hypertext Webster is joined to a WordNet 1.7 listing, this was a WordNet 2. Exciting. So I clicked through the WordNet Home link, and found myself at the tastefully styled WordNet home page.
WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator).
George Miller? George A. Miller? The T.O.T.E. guy? Click. Oh My Gawd. Not only a picture, but the full text of "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information". I've been wanting to get my hands on a copy of this since 1985. Not that I've been motivated enough to track down the original journal and order it at the local university, but it's been one of those prizes that I knew synchronicity would some day bring to me. Today's the day.
This paper, if you didn't know, is the heart and soul of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming concept of conscious and unconscious. It's a very simple, operational definition. What you're thinking of is conscious. What you aren't isn't. It's tied to this paper, seminal in the truest sense of the term. Guess what Beau's reading today.
Coming soon: Mother Jones on the Bandler Murder Trial.
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