Jargon Revisited
I’ve spent hours today going over three sentences. The final result?
“The mind tries to predict and control sensorimotor signals.” 9 word sentence, 1,315 words to get there.
“Knowledge is about patterns within sensorimotor data.” 7 word sentence, 1,006 words to get there.
“Predictions about specified behaviours create conceptual knowledge.” 7 word sentence again, 1,527 words to get there.
That’s 0.6% word retention, for those keeping score at home. Every word in each sentence has been looked up, pondered, substituted out and back, and exhaustively analyzed for appropriate connotation and denotation.
And they’re still subject to revision.
I love my work.