I've been reading McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary and can't stop thinking about one section. Here's the whole quote. I'll go through each bit below.pic.twitter.com/OFugL67chD
Some crackpot. Interested in 'mathematical intuition', whatever that is.
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I've been reading McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary and can't stop thinking about one section. Here's the whole quote. I'll go through each bit below.pic.twitter.com/OFugL67chD
All language drags a string of associations along with it. (How much attention you pay to these is at the heart of the decoupling/contextualising idea.)
@Meaningness has the BEST terminology for these: https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1059189937973551104 …pic.twitter.com/1TRPaZjIye
Now I understood this already, but Gilchrist makes a further distinction between associations coming in 'from the bottom' and 'from the top', which is new to me. Maybe this isn't an absolute split, but I'm finding the distinction helpful anyway.pic.twitter.com/LFecX9u7XR
At the bottom end, meaning grounds out in action, and in the body. This is prelinguistic. Understanding of this goes through Wittgenstein among many others.pic.twitter.com/peeWeOPJYl
At the top end, words and phrases also activate other words and phrases that are related in some way. This is the top end as these are already packaged into language - it's more conceptual, less direct.pic.twitter.com/Rg0vKJUJw3
As far as I understand it, structuralism tried to get meaning out of just the top end, the web of relations between terms in language. This doesn't work on its own, there's no there *there* without the bottom end. In 'Force and Signification', Derrida called it a 'deserted city':pic.twitter.com/coFbJUqW9N
Derrida seemed to be very alive to the problem, and used resources from phenomenology to try and breathe life into the abandoned city.
Unfortunately he's unreadable! So I can't tell you whether his solution was any good. 
Grounding in how OTHER’s respond, rather than grounding in myself, seems to me a rather more useful direction, the trick that has been missed by Derrida and these others.
Yes I'm pretty certain Derrida was missing this, and that it's important. Wittgenstein definitely wasn't missing it!
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