Newborns are language universalists. Able to learn any sound in any language, they can distinguish all the sounds that humans utter. But adults are language specialists. Exposure to their native language reduces their ability to perceive speech sounds that are not in that native tongue. An English prototype sound is the vowel linguists write as "i," pronounced as in the word "fee." When an adult English speaker hears something very close to this "i" sound (as when the sound is spoken by someone with a head cold), the listener will hear the prototype "i" and not the slight variation. The prototype sound acts like a magnet, pulling all similar sounds into one mental slot for language processing. But the same is not true of foreign languages. Because English speakers have not memorized the prototype for a foreign vowel -- like the Swedish vowel "y" (an EE-sound pronounced with front-rounded lips), they can discern when the vowel is pronounced slightly differently. They have no "magnet" that makes the sounds identical. Using identical computer equipment to generate prototype Swedish and English sounds tested this magnet effect on 64 6-month-old babies in Sweden and the United States. American babies routinely ignored the different pronunciations of "i" because they heard it as the same sound. But they could distinguish slight variations in the "y" sounds. The exact opposite was true of the Swedish babies.They ignored the variations in "y" because they sounded the same, while they noticed the variations in "i."
-Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington in Seattle
But do you really see something if you don't have a word for it? A researcher named Jules Davidoff traveled to Namibia to investigate this, where he conducted an experiment with the Himba tribe, which speaks a language that has no word for blue or distinction between blue and green. When shown a circle with 11 green squares and one blue, they could not pick out which one was different from the others — or those who could see a difference took much longer and made more mistakes than would make sense to us, who can clearly spot the blue square. But the Himba have more words for types of green than we do in English. When looking at a circle of green squares with only one slightly different shade, they could immediately spot the different one. Without a word for a color, without a way of identifying it as different, it is much harder for us to notice what is unique about it. So before blue became a common concept, maybe humans saw it. But it seems they did not know they were seeing it. If you see something yet can't see it, does it exist? Did colors come into existence over time? Not technically, but our ability to notice them may have.
-Kevin Loria
Over the last 70 years, American animal and plant breeding has focused on yield, pest resistance and appearance — not flavor. The pleasure of an ingredient’s taste did not seem to have practical value. The national Chicken of Tomorrow contest sponsored in the late 1940s by the grocery chain A.&P. Chickens were bred and judged for uniformity of size, volume of breast, hatchability and feed efficiency. Their taste was not considered. The story has been repeated with tomatoes, strawberries, broccoli, wheat, corn and more: all bred for size, speed of growth, pest resistance, shelf life, appearance — not taste. In nature, flavor never appears without nutrition. Flavor means nutrition. A Chicago pediatrician named Clara Davis foster-parented 15 babies in 1926 who’d never been exposed to ‘the ordinary foods of adult life’ and for six years let them eat whatever they wanted, in any order, from a list of 34 foods including water, potatoes, corn meal, barley, beef, lamb, bone jelly, carrots, turnips, haddock, peaches, apples, fish, orange juice, bananas, brains, milk and cabbage. They chose balanced diets — sometimes strange ones: One child ate liver and drank a pint of orange juice for breakfast. Their preferences changed often. Another child, who had started off with rickets, was early on given a glass of cod liver oil as medicine. Over the course of his illness, never encouraged, he drank it 'irregularly and in varying amounts’ of his own free will until he was better. This unconscious wisdom has been subsequently studied in goats and calves, showing repeatedly that if the body can make nutritional connections via physical feedback from flavor, it will be a good nutritionist.
-Mark Schatzker
There are sounds our ears cannot hear.
There are things our eyes cannot see.
There are our flavors tongues cannot taste.
There are scents our noses cannot smell.
There are objects our hands cannot feel.
It makes me wonder are there things being spoken to us we cannot hear? Things before our eyes we cannot see? Flavors that go un-savored? Beautiful scents that go un-enjoyed? A reality that goes un-touched?
Are there messages, signals, that are being expressed that our senses cannot interpret?
Are we looking in the wrong places, or in the wrong ways at this reality?
What sort of language does God speak?
What sort of form does God take?
Are we missing her? Is she right in front of us and our eyes can't see because we don't have the correct vocabulary? Our ears can't hear because our brains have closed off all sounds but our language? We can not longer taste the goodness of God because we have turned the world away from God's values and to our own: size, speed of growth, pest resistance, shelf life, and appearance.
Are there more light spectrums?
Are there different sound ranges?
What we humans can perceive is very, very limited. Microscopes and telescopes are still limited to the filter of our eyes. An X-ray must be printed, converted, to a form our limited lens can interpret.
Sounds outside of the range of any organism.
What sort of wavelength would a spirit appear on? What sort of range would a spirit speak on?
Wore It Deep - The Tree Ring
-Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington in Seattle
But do you really see something if you don't have a word for it? A researcher named Jules Davidoff traveled to Namibia to investigate this, where he conducted an experiment with the Himba tribe, which speaks a language that has no word for blue or distinction between blue and green. When shown a circle with 11 green squares and one blue, they could not pick out which one was different from the others — or those who could see a difference took much longer and made more mistakes than would make sense to us, who can clearly spot the blue square. But the Himba have more words for types of green than we do in English. When looking at a circle of green squares with only one slightly different shade, they could immediately spot the different one. Without a word for a color, without a way of identifying it as different, it is much harder for us to notice what is unique about it. So before blue became a common concept, maybe humans saw it. But it seems they did not know they were seeing it. If you see something yet can't see it, does it exist? Did colors come into existence over time? Not technically, but our ability to notice them may have.
-Kevin Loria
Over the last 70 years, American animal and plant breeding has focused on yield, pest resistance and appearance — not flavor. The pleasure of an ingredient’s taste did not seem to have practical value. The national Chicken of Tomorrow contest sponsored in the late 1940s by the grocery chain A.&P. Chickens were bred and judged for uniformity of size, volume of breast, hatchability and feed efficiency. Their taste was not considered. The story has been repeated with tomatoes, strawberries, broccoli, wheat, corn and more: all bred for size, speed of growth, pest resistance, shelf life, appearance — not taste. In nature, flavor never appears without nutrition. Flavor means nutrition. A Chicago pediatrician named Clara Davis foster-parented 15 babies in 1926 who’d never been exposed to ‘the ordinary foods of adult life’ and for six years let them eat whatever they wanted, in any order, from a list of 34 foods including water, potatoes, corn meal, barley, beef, lamb, bone jelly, carrots, turnips, haddock, peaches, apples, fish, orange juice, bananas, brains, milk and cabbage. They chose balanced diets — sometimes strange ones: One child ate liver and drank a pint of orange juice for breakfast. Their preferences changed often. Another child, who had started off with rickets, was early on given a glass of cod liver oil as medicine. Over the course of his illness, never encouraged, he drank it 'irregularly and in varying amounts’ of his own free will until he was better. This unconscious wisdom has been subsequently studied in goats and calves, showing repeatedly that if the body can make nutritional connections via physical feedback from flavor, it will be a good nutritionist.
-Mark Schatzker
There are sounds our ears cannot hear.
There are things our eyes cannot see.
There are our flavors tongues cannot taste.
There are scents our noses cannot smell.
There are objects our hands cannot feel.
It makes me wonder are there things being spoken to us we cannot hear? Things before our eyes we cannot see? Flavors that go un-savored? Beautiful scents that go un-enjoyed? A reality that goes un-touched?
Are there messages, signals, that are being expressed that our senses cannot interpret?
Are we looking in the wrong places, or in the wrong ways at this reality?
What sort of language does God speak?
What sort of form does God take?
Are we missing her? Is she right in front of us and our eyes can't see because we don't have the correct vocabulary? Our ears can't hear because our brains have closed off all sounds but our language? We can not longer taste the goodness of God because we have turned the world away from God's values and to our own: size, speed of growth, pest resistance, shelf life, and appearance.
Are there more light spectrums?
Are there different sound ranges?
What we humans can perceive is very, very limited. Microscopes and telescopes are still limited to the filter of our eyes. An X-ray must be printed, converted, to a form our limited lens can interpret.
Sounds outside of the range of any organism.
What sort of wavelength would a spirit appear on? What sort of range would a spirit speak on?
Wore It Deep - The Tree Ring