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"The reality we manage to get into our heads is largely that reality which is abstracted through our symbol systems."
Anon
Time-binding:
"The uniquely human ability to build on the accumulated knowledge of others, potentially to an exponential degree."
General-Semantics...
" ...teaches us how symbols are related to experience so as to make it less likely that we take too seriously the absurd or dangerous nonsense that within every culture passes for philosophy, wisdom, and political argument."
Aldous Huxley
"Experience
shows that when the methods of general semantics are applied, the results are usually beneficial, whether in law, medicine, business, etc., be they in family, national, or international fields. If they are not applied, but merely talked about, no results can be expected."
Alfred Korzybski
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Updated by Robert James 10/10/2024
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The Australian General Semantics Society (AGS)
is an incorporated association, first established in 1989 by
Laurie Cox.
We are located in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia.
Our resources include:
* Seminars in-oerson and on-line, on the foundations and application
of GS,
* Discussion groups: to participate in further study of General-Semantics,
* A library of hundreds of books, articles, and various media on GS,
* Affiliation and correspondence with the Institute for General Semantics,
* Friendly, energetic, active people leading focussed and engaged
lives.
Meetings are currently held on-line. Details are published on
this website.
Contact
AGS
Due to changing circumstances, event schedules may change.
Email reminders are sent about 10 days before each
event.
~ Recent Additions to the AGS Website
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Our last seminar :
Dr Stuart Hill: "Enabling
Development of Our Potential: Frameworks and Actions"
<See the YouTube
recording>
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Our next
meeting:
Saturday
12th October 2024
"General
Semantics Approaches
to the Concept of
Evil"
Presenter:
Robert James
 The
concept of evil has
intrigued and
troubled humanity
for centuries.
Philosophers,
theologians, and
scholars have
grappled with its
nature, trying to
understand its
origins,
manifestations, and
impacts on human
behaviour.
One intriguing
approach to this
age-old question
comes from the field
of general
semantics, a
discipline developed
by Alfred Korzybski
in the early 20th
century.
This perspective
offers a unique lens
through which we can
examine and
potentially
reinterpret the
nature of evil.
When:
Saturday 12th
October
2024, 10am - 1pm
Sydney time
Friday 11th October
2024, 7pm – 10 pm
Ohio / New York
time.
Where:
Zoom meeting which
is free and 100%
covid and flu safe!
Click here to join
the meeting!
Cost:
Free for Zoom
participants.
Other
lovely seminars coming up:
* Rachel Lauer’s
Stages of understanding.
(Details TBA)
* Timebinding - its
formulation, implications
and trends.
"Fools say that they learn
by experience. I prefer to
profit by other's
experience." (Bismarck).
An
example of timebinding off
others that have gone
before.
* RJ's un-Pula GS
Glossary (under
construction):
A collaborative project,
incorporating 20 years of
AGS
studies and
discussions.
* Baby Boomers in
Popular Culture
How can we keep
up with technology
and
dynamic culture,
and
engage with our children and
their children?
Are
Korzybski’s extensional
devices sufficient,
or do
we need some new ones?
* Ed MacNeal's
"General Semantics - Then
and Now"
Edward MacNeal
held the position of
executive secretary of the
International Society for
General Semantics in the
late 1940s, works as an
aviation consultant, and has
written several notable
books, including The
Semantics of Air Passenger
Transportation;
Mathsemantics: Making
Numbers Talk Sense; and
MacNeal's Master Atlas of
Decision Making (published
1997).
* Science without Soul
On 13th
November 2020,
IGS
Secretary Vanessa
Biard-Schaeffer
addressed the Italian Senate
for the celebration of the
UN 2020 Philosophy Day,
on the theme “Science
Without Soul.”
* More of Marty
Levinson's 'Modern Fairy
Tales
What
significance can we draw
from these?
Why are the
'traditional' fairy tales so
durable?
Is there a
possible role for new
fictional creations in GS?
* "Examples of GS
Formulations in the Media"
(by
Dion, held-over from 21 May
1999)
Clips from
movies/cartoons/comedy
shows, etc,
that
extensionally show up some
problems
like
fact-inference confusion
(jumping to conclusions) ...
Australian General Semantics Society Incorporated
Incorporated Association
No: INC9881458
Constitution
(DOC format, to
download)
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