Alfred Korzybski’s ideas on General Semantics are important and profound, but Korzybski wasn’t very good at explaining them. These other people help explain his ideas more simply. If you want to master Science and Sanity, Korzybski’s 900-page text on General Semantics, I suggest you start with these simplified explanations first!
Professor Irving J. Lee’s 6 lectures on “Talking Sense” where he leisurely covers a few important principles of General Semantics over three hours. You need to be a bit patient with him in the first couple of lectures, but then he gets really good.
Radical General Semantics, Gad Horowitz Lecture 1 – Sept 15, 2009
lightcell – Debugging the Mind with General Semantics, Etc.
Alfred Korzybski – The World is NOT an Illusion
Alfred Korzybski – Historical Note on the Structural Differential
Robert Anton Wilson – Language, Reason & Reality
Robert Anton Wilson talks about Alfred Korzybski, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Robert Anton Wilson – Language and Reality (Audio)
Watch from 13 minutes to 21minutes 43 seconds
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