Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

Psychomechanics & Pāli

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/psychomechanics-pali-dfd51359247

   Jacques Coulardeau Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

THE ECOLOGY OF THE MIND

The subject of my reflection in this first chapter, that came quite late in my three months, emerged when I opened the Russian doll of the word « eco-cultural »  in which the cultural always seemed to be contained by the ecological. I wondered for some time what culture was at stake. I observed and read a lot and came to the conclusion that the cultural meant by this term of eco-cultural was the culture accompanying the eco-systems that were being defended, and if they were purely natural (fauna and flora), the culture of this approach was biodiversity and all it entails, or if they were social and economic (traditional indigenous life style), the culture was the biodiversity of traditional crops, traditional agricultural methods, traditional community life, traditional social relations and traditional entertainments, among which local rituals, religious or not.

The term thus used did not cover in its common acceptance the cultural heritage that is literature, music, poetry, architecture, history, religions and spiritualities, and so many other human creations, without forgetting the most important of them all, languages (in the plural because no linguistic area speaks one homogeneous language but always at least several dialects of this language, but most of the time some minority languages too, or « sacred » languages, for example Pāli for religious reasons in Sri Lanka along with Sinhala, not to speak of the « touristic » languages or the tourists’ languages, and of course Tamil, or Arabic among the Moslems, for religious reasons too. Which language is more important for an individual : his real native dialect (the dialect he learned from his parents), his religious language (the language he uses to practice the religion of his belief) or the official national language of his country (and what happens when there are two or more) ? I do not have the answer to that question but I doubt very much that it may and can be simple.

 Academia.edu

Buddhism is a trip into your own mind contemplating the world and meditating on the past, the present and the future as a continuous flow in time and space, because space is the basis of it all. We are from one spot and we live time in this spot. If you change that spot and if you move to somewhere else, time becomes different, and the language becomes strange if not foreign.

Temporalité et Spatialisation: théories et applications,

Casa Cartii de Stiinta, 

Cluj Napocca, 2023

Buddhism,  *  Philosophy of Mind,  *  Languages and Linguistics,  *  Predication,  *  Mental Models

 

 

 

 

Temporalité & Spatialisation, Guillaume & Psychomécanique

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370760736_Temporalite_Spatialisation_Guillaume_Psychomecanique

 

Gustave Guillaume devised a linguistic theory that is the perfect continuation and absolute expansion of what Meillet, Saussure, and Benveniste at times envisioned or understood without seeing the limitless possibilities some of their ideas may open. Guillaume has thus built psychomechanics as a theory that can capture the use of language in any situation as a human psychological and communicational creative activity. He is interested in discovering what the speaker intended to express and how this intention is cast into the formal apparatus of one particular language to produce a message which becomes an effective expression that supposedly corresponds to the intention of the speaker. But that is when it all starts getting tricky and interesting. There is practically never one meaning behind even one single word, at least not for everyone at the same time in the whole world. Just ask 8 billion people to draw a dog or draw a bird and you'll see the differences.

 

Medium.com, 2023

 

WEST vs. REST

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/west-vs-rest-c3c32c94c1b5

The West is engaged in an all-out ideological and psychological war against the Rest of the world via all media and social networks. It has been going on since the fall of the USSR. It started with Yeltsin, and the West used all terroristic possibilities via the various Islamist terrorist networks and a president of Georgia who was a businessman in the USA. He failed in Georgia and was rejected, so he moved to Ukraine. We can see what it has produced. The worst crisis since the fall of Yugoslavia. And the West is trying to prepare and plan another crisis of the same type with Taiwan. The paper tigers have been sharpening their cardboard teeth for, now, more than thirty years. Strangely enough, only Trump had words but no weapons and no incentive to start a crisis, except a commercçial war with China which was definitely too little for Biden. So now the maneuvers are more than maneuvers. They are military campaigns by proxy. And Biden knows Ukraine since one of his sons has been very active there for probably fifteen or twenty years.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

 

 

Where Did Gaulish Language Come From?

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/where-did-gaulish-language-come-from-394be709bb5

 

The Gauls are Celtic people and Celtic languages still exist and are spoken in Europe, particularly in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Spain, and a few other places. It is an Indo-European language that evolved from the language level of development (third articulation) the people who migrated out of Black Africa around 40,000 BCE had reached. They stayed on the Iranian plateau till after the Ice Age and started migrating from there around 12-10,000 BCE. They reached Western Europe circa 5,000 BCE.

But these Indo-Europeans, as differentiated from their direct cousins the Indo-Aryans, had developed some kind of common language, Indo-European or close to it, and they left behind them in their migration or migrations some people and linguistic communication on Indo-European languages that developed in various regions or territories. Contacts and various alliances brought Indo-Europeans in collaboration and at times conflict, with many agglutinative languages of the Turkic older family established in Europe since 50,000 BCE.

They took various routes to get to Europe where several Old European Turkic languages have survived till today like Saami, Finnish, Estonian, and a few more in northern Russia, plus the Hungarians who arrived where they still are around the 7th century AD. And we must keep in mind Basque, of course. These contacts, at times conflicts, of one-fourth of the final population of Europe after the Indo-European migration, meaning the Indo-Europeans only represented 25% of the European population a couple of thousand years BCE, and they still only represent 25% of our DNA, with all the Old European Turkic populations (75% of the final European population and our DNA today) produced a differentiation in various groups of European languages.

This implied a diversification of Indo-European if there ever was only one matrix, which I doubt, in big families: Celtic languages; Romance languages; Germanic Languages which include Scandinavian languages, except the agglutinative Saami, Finnish, and Estonian that are agglutinative; Slav languages (including Polish); and Baltic Languages including Lithuanian and Latvian. One last thing. The Celts have had a writing system based on an alphabet of 20 letters for a good 3,000 years, the Ogham writing system that was preserved and slightly expanded by the Benedictines in the 5th century AD in Ireland. The letters of this alphabet are the first sounds of twenty trees that only existed all of them together within a limited territory in Germany, in the Rhine valley, around where Stuttgart and Frankfurt now stand. Did the Gauls use this alphabet?

Have a good trip back to our distant roots that too many people have forgotten.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Languages and Linguistics,  *  Indo-European Studies,  *  Celtic Languages,  *  Phylogeny,  *  Gaulish language