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Good point. I think the author (and many other people) was just blinded by self-conceit and jumped to a conclusion too quickly.


Given that's the same conclusion the author came to, how was he "blinded by self-conceit, answering too quickly"?


After I realized the recursion inside my conclusion, I jumped out for a while and asked you another question: Is the conclusion from that video/talk a tautology or a pure belief? The author just described what he experienced and didn't talk about the relationship between meanings and his intuition. He believed meanings do not come from what he feels (the artifical Chinese characters), and didn't say why his intuition let him hold that belief for natural things. He just know his own feelings.

This remind me of some words from Buddhists -- Everyone can not see the truth through other people's eyes.


So you're asking where my ignorance came from? Well, I don't know. But I don't think I have any real reason to believe the author. :( Am I self-abased? Anyway, I like this joke: "Life is hard." (Sorry.)


Yeah, maybe I should not think others is what, but just think I think what. Oh my, an infinite recursion. Anyone can help me?




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