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To one who has just begun to make his acquaintance with the literature of general semantics, Mother Gorman's book will prove an invaluable guide. I agree with other reviews that say this can be a difficult book to read. When discussing ideas as fundamental as these, our normal language fails and this is part of what Korzybski is saying - we need new language and new tools to approach these concepts.
With this is mind, wading through the tougher parts of the book was still well worth it for me! It took me a whole winter - about 5 months - to read through this opus. I really liked it - therefore the four stars. What I retained is that a map is not the territory, and that there can be as many maps as there are individual minds. However, I have the impression that Mr. Korzybski never questions his core belief that there is one territory, a single objective reality that might be shared among semantically educated people, resulting in sanity for all.
After having finished the book, I felt emotionally connected to Mr. Korzybski, touched by the combination of strength, gentleness and modesty his writing exudes. Flemming Funch. This is one of the most important books I've read. The concepts in it have become very important to my outlook on life. The reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is that, honestly, it is almost unreadable for modern humans. It is very academic. You can guess that any book that starts off with pages of references just in the introduction, before it even starts, isn't going to be an easy reader.
But it is well worth it. I wish that General Semantics had truly caught on. Particularly, as indicated in the title, within the practice of science.
It hasn't really. I read it age 14 and it felt like I was wandering around inside my home, it also changed me and how I understand language, cognition, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, manipulation and religion.
As has been noted in other reviews, this is not a book for the faint-hearted. I read all of it save the appendices back in the sixties and was very impressed. The misconceptions also obscure the limitations of science. Not seeing these limitations prevents us from seeing and going beyond them, which leads to a crippled life and an impoverished society.
But reaching beyond the limitations of science, as outlined in this book, can open the doors to a more fulfilled, saner, healthier, happier, and more peaceful life and society. For many human beings science itself has become a sort of dogmatic religion with an attitude that extra scientia nulla veritas, thus reducing the grandeur of Truth which according to the great sages is intimately intertwined with Love and Beauty.
Scientific research is important and necessary but it has its limitations. A connection with other levels of Reality is necessary for nourishing the human spirit as is rigorously pointed out in this book. Such a return to balance and wholeness is crucially important not just for the survival and well-being of the human species, but also for the blossoming of life in all its forms.
He published nearly a hundred research papers and several books, including the triple award-winning Organogenesis of Flowers and Biophilosophy.
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