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" Once we differentiate, differentiation becomes the denial of identity ," Korzybski wrote in Science and Sanity.

" Once we discriminate among the objective and verbal levels, we learn ' silence ' on the unspeakable objective levels, and so introduce a most beneficial neurological ' delay '— engage the cortex to perform its natural function.

" British-American philosopher Max Black, an influential critic of general semantics, called this neurological delay the " central aim " of general semantics training, " so that in responding to verbal or nonverbal stimuli, we are aware of what it is that we are doing.