On Goo Behavior
I. General Semantics
A. The rules, imagistic and functional, of protoplasm and colloids are most important.
1. Korzybski used the word protoplasm to speak of the human body.
2. Humans were subject to being understood through the need of inorganic structuring because protoplasm was a type of colloid.
a. No great divide between organic (related to living organisms, or affecting a bodily organ) and inorganic (not arising in normal growth, artificial, lacking system or structure)
b. Protoplasm and colloids were known for their commonality and continuity
3. No aspect of human body behavior could be isolated from colloidal behavior--
a. Which alone “formed the most important known link between the inorganic and organic.”
B. Colloidal matter
1. Images of liquids and gelatins created a place where boundaries were broken down and exchange between all entities increased.
2. All the goo provided lubricant where imagistic slippages could take place among Burroughs’s protoplasmic bodies
3. Colloids existed as smoke and mist as well, not just emulsions and gelatins.
a. Burroughs’s schlupped bodies exhibited this characteristic as well
C. Korzybski’s Thoughts
1. The boundaries within bodies, between bodies, and between the body and the environment are blurred because of the sensitivity of the protoplasmic surface.
a. The surface has become all-encompassing through auto ingestion.
2. Emotion or thought is always connected with electrical currents
a. Electricity seems fundamental in colloidal behavior
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