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From: "John Buehler" <johnbue@msn.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:17:58 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Michael Chui writes:
> --- David Kennerly <kennerly@sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> Michael Chui wrote:
> This was a prediction, and clearly, there's probably no real path
> to it right now. I've been thinking, lately, about how language
> would be like if it had been developed via pattern recognition
> rather than sequential thinking. I hypothesized that the result
> would have been ideas communicated, perhaps, by picture, with
> details added by detailing this visual image.
Huh? What? Cave drawings? Pictographs? Pictures as a means of
communication WERE first. Asian languages use symbols that are
matched one-to-one with patterns identified by the human brain. My
personal theory is that sequential thinking, as you call it, is a
variation of pattern-based operation of the human brain. Sequence
is a pattern, in other words. And a very useful one because of the
variations of concepts that need to be communicated through the
written word.
JB
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