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numéro
2, 26 juin 2006: This
rarest case of "voluntary late
talkers...
"Should we
apply one of
my theories, (that moral and
intellectual qualities are on the same level), to "voluntary late
talkers". They
could be useful in that time of "tribal chiefs
obeying the Home Rule".
Better said: "What
kind of logic
do a brain
never asking any question develop?
"what kind of religion ?"
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Dear
friends,
I bought the two books on "Late-Talkers"
as soon as
they appeared, [1] and was
particularly attracted by the possibility of
"voluntary
late talkers", as I named them: hyper-famous, Einstein; less
known, Wittgenstein. Monk, in his remarkable biography, strangely
mentions Ludwig was "retarded till four"
but makes no comment. Recently
Schusterman adds a significant comment. [2] I just
answer: "Maybe,
"geniuses"
should be left to geniuses, at last.." Time for "retarded"
to call "retarded" those that
libel-label them "retarded"...[3]
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I suppose Wittgenstein's case was hidden by the
ashamed richest family in Vienna. Like all "voluntary late-talker" his
silent brain was very active and profiting by rarely met, first-class,
conditions: SEVEN elder brothers and sisters, (all hyper-gifted). Less
known is his hand-easiness, as good as Newton, ... (very young, he
built a sewing-machine!). I supposed beginning by dominating
space, (like any animal), is important for a free life, even in
thinking.
I'm as ambidexter as Vinci and that's useful in
building industry as in a drawing course... I was sent to school
at 5 years, 5 months, 4 days, "because no hurry",
said my mother. But
at eleven, I had overpassed my elder brother and making the holy
communion with a dispense of age. Then I "run-run",
adopted by a
strange group with
a strange project.
I could present a "curriculum vitae"
with the
"libels-labels" received from "psycialists", all being "a side of the
same cube"; from "genius"
leaving legends in
various parts of the world
to "patanoïa",
(for diversion of religious opinions"), "retarded",
"most abstract minded guy", (by a prof of psy that did not know
Newton
and this judgement delayed my knowledge of myself), "asperger",
(for my
sense of details, by my gift for synthesis is at least equal...)
"Prosopamnesian",
as much as young Darwin I discovered). In fact, the
youth of "geniuses"
is studied but the early months are far more
important, (my opinion and my case).
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My preoccupation about five was: "Do I dream all the
night?" At waking up, I had to examine my dream. Therefore I
developed
a kind of fast-introspection: it was the first step to "meet" my
right
brain. You can only profit by circumstances: a work to finish
absolutely, a good fit of fever and a very bad news, like a death. In
these conditions, I had a kind of epi-top-lepsy and saw clearly my
right brain as" the stock of the
rules of the tribe", (I linked with Schopenhauer's
Will).
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In public, I got
one month's total isolation,
(1949). But a decent doctor, after one month's of silence told me: "I
don't understand your case. I send you home", more lucky than
Comte!,
(In private, I awoke, fresh as a fish and back to "Sain d'Esprit", my
computer).
I needed a long time to understand I had discovered
"bicameralism",
(philosophically, like Kant and Schopenhauer discovered relativity
80 years before Einstein). Immediately, I tried to understand: "How could we
program this silent mind?" To fight my distraction while
driving, I
just imagined cases and solutions. It saved my life in a difficult
cases. Later, to fight my "prosopamnesia",
I went to a portrait-course.
I stupidly started questioning the lady teacher and she put me in
front of
an awful Apostle, during four hours; among students that had already
participated in public exhibitions. That was the cure! These
hard-stressing hours were more useful that the thousands I spent all in
all ! Therefore the right brain was not
"the
brain of
emotion"
but 'the
brain to be programmed by emotion"
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Lots of deduction
and warning for schooling and moralising people. Now, I'll
remember I'm ultra-Popperian: "Life is
problem-solving", (and philosophy is our tool) and "Solving a problem
prepares usrto solve a bigger problem", (better: "...prepares us
to see an unknown problem") and "Philosophy is an
Unending Quest", (therefore always say "NEXT?" after
any discovery). I'm also a post-Darwinian believing that Evolution
decided everything. In the fight for life, animals survived through
this rapidity of decision called "instinct".
Later came quality and choice.
That's why I consider Libet's
discovery superior, (and of course more useful for my theories), to the
bicameral theory. I leave to Popper and his "arrow of time"
the strange interpretation, that a train could arrive in Brussels
before leaving Paris but conclude that in front of any problem we take
a decision within half a second. That's why I survived while, in the same
circumstances, my "godmother"
died: she took one minute while I applied one of my prepared decisions
in the half-second of Libet. Now, is
there a "NEXT?"
Nature follows Ockham's rule, (as she invented, imposed it). Therefore,
I think that creativity, (a kind of decision), follow this half-second
rule.
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And
the "geniuses"
prove it, by the fact that their number is not large. And most of them
have characteristics of "hautism",
even of "late-talker"."There are not many
ideas", used to say Einstein. And less inventors as, apparently,
the Einstein, or Edison, or Vinci types confiscate discoveries. Last proof?
Nobel Prizes rarely repeat, (unlike Marie Curie sending her daughter
for a third prize!). Most are "accidental inventors"? |
I stopped my
creativity&management course 30 years ago. Not many were prepared
to admit these theories and I never dreamt of being a recipe-dealer for
short-thinking managers.
Now, through an awful need to know, (and the
conviction that enterprises could be the dreamt place to train young
philosophers), I changed
jobs every six months, (it's possible in enterprise consultancy).
Next year, on my 80th birthday, I'll propose a book with a translation
of "Timeo
hominem unius libri" as "A true philosopher
writes one book
only, his life", (sub-title: "my unbelievable
crossing of the 20th
century"). And I'll dedicate the remnant of my life to the
great
mystery:
"When
Nature is successful with a new creature, It
multiplies it by billions, (virus), by millions, (rabbits).
Therefore,
"late-talkers", type Einstein should exist by
thousands.
Are they destroyed by "schooling-taming"?
Obliging
them to be "normal".
In my opinion and my case, only an active mind is
important, making things, inventing.
Is it possible to save/recuperate them? To produce
them? Friend Wittgenstein confirms one of my theories, that moral and
intellectual qualities are on the same level. "Voluntary late talkers",
could be useful in that time of "tribal chiefs
obeying the Home
Rule". Better starting slowly:
| "What
kind of logic is deveopped
by a brain never asking a question ? |
Corollary:
"What
kind of religion
?"
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So long. Sincerely yours,
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G.
Lelarge,
"philoManager",
Ingénieur
informaticien,
(Poly of Enfield, National Computing Center, 1970-1973),
inscrit
expert
au Bureau
international du travail, (1971 à retraite) suite
à
contribution informatique, (1965), jugée exceptionnelle par spécialistes
du Management. Intervention comme consultant dans 175
entreprises,
(50 à 80.000 employés): Philips, IBM WORLD TRADE,
SONATRACH,
Ministères Algérie, Venezuela..., Mines du Zaïre, etc.. |
PS. I
was the most happy Frenchman with the USA French Bashing, (on
frogSophers), but I
claim the priority, as I started by 1964 with some
Heidegger,
(Heid'Higgler!)
1/
"The
LATE
TALKER",
by M.MC. Agin, L.F. Genf,
and M.J. Nicholl and
"The
EINSTEIN SYNDROME", Thomas Sowell
I suppose
Dad Sowell could change his sentence, page 94, from "also"
to "quite":
"it
is also possible
that they talk late because of their
precocious development in analytical thinking".(The
inverse should be examined: "They develop analytical
thinking because they talk late";
and I
add: "the
next noodigm, (psychOS), will have no language"...)
But I would not stop quoting Sowell's book: an
"inside-home-problem-dad",
page
95: "the girl that
doubled her vocabulary during her 40th month then
redoubled during her 41st month... Spontaneously speaking in "complete
phrase, not words"... Understanding what others are saying is usually a
function of the right hemisphere...
But I'm surprised/fascinated at
page 83 by "selective autism"...
page
46: "becoming
oblivious to people and things around him... "Rebellious
and non-conforming"
page 106: "Many psychiatrists
very ignorant of
neurologic maturation..." (I'm a witness!)
2/ I translate back to English.
The funny side
is the Shuster-astonishment:
"The biography (of Wittgenstein) by Monk tells a fact even more
seizing and significant on the not-linguistic experiment: the great
philosopher of the language "did
not start to speak before four years
of age" (Monk, p. 22). During all this time "without language",
was
Wittgenstein left without experiment or faculty of comprehension?
If
such a thing seems incredible, it then seems difficult to limit to the
linguistic dimension experiment of meaning and comprehension.
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This long
period of pre-linguistic experiment could explain the impassioned
concern of Wittgenstein for the limits of the language; it would
suggest the source of the central intuition which connects the logic
and the mysticism of Tractatus, namely the idea of informulable truths,
impossible to express strictly in proposals, but which are shown and
prove to be crucial for our experiment (in comparison with the "logical
form, for example, of ethics and aesthetics). (Schusterman, "Vivre
la philosophie, pragmatisme et art de vivre", page 51,
Klincksieck,
2001) |
3/ My first a very clear
souvenir: at 27 months,
a farmer
came to take my elder brother for a month's holiday. I remember my
brother
crying, refusing. My mother said: "Take Guy" and prepared a bundle. I
remember looking at the horse galloping. The farmer's wife, probably
informed of my "case"
never spoke to me but gave me orders: 'Wash your
hands, go to bed". One day two farm-boys were mocking me but I
thought:
"Don't answer,
they would come again". Therefore they stopped and the
farmer's wife continued to give orders... I was happy with the dog.
