Manhood of humanity

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1. cxrNov 2023
   That's called time-binding, and it actually predates Korzybski's coining "general semantics" in the 1930s. He wrote about it in his first book Manhood of Humanity, which is public domain[2].

   1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_binding>

   2. <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL168124W/Manhood_of_humanity?...>

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2. carapaceJun 2020
   Plants are chemical-binding, animals are space-binding, humans are time-binding.

   Korzybski, "Manhood of Humanity"

   http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25457/25457-pdf.pdf

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski

   IIRC, he meant that plant life binds and manipulates chemicals in the immediate environment; animals move matter over the surface of the earth (at a much higher rate than plants); humans shift information through time via culture (and later writing, et. al.)

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