It’s almost like we all fanaticize about our own ability to say something important.This is beautiful and prescient for some. It’s lexicon for elitism.Not that I mind that but let’s be real about common language it’s importance to the understanding of the many instead of the few.
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This has a special root in social sciences and psychology, where (because we don’t have the same technical innovations and discoveries that natural sciences have) we try to compensate with new terms—playing with SIGNS of discoveries and breakthroughs.
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but how will we make a new ingroup if we don't have jargon?
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I recommend the bait-and-switch: bring the boys and girls to the yard with fancy jargon, then we sacrifice it together around the bonfire.
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hahaha who used the word salience landscape?
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I just did a Twitter search, and found more than I had hoped. I believe the term was introduced and popularized by John Vervaeke (
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Agreed, why use "salience landscape" when you can just say "attention schema"? ;-)
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Good point!
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move out of the way mate, you're constraining my olfactory stage and my thermal dancefloors
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I love the “thermal dancefloor”! That should definitely be a thing.
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