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Xanadu 2012: Dumb Question |
Category: Articles 8 comments 3 Aug 2007 @ 20:41 by swanny : A Cluea clue source = http://whyfiles.org/079writing/3.html 4 Aug 2007 @ 04:07 by swanny : hmmm I was wondering how it all came about. Its stikes me that the written word has a sort of inherant objectivety or truth to it apart from the writer. It stands alone as a complete and somewhat whole thing but only if one is cognizant of its meaning or intention. Yet then it is also open to interpretation and context hence the need to speak and write clearly, consisely and correctly. We tend it seems to function on autopilot that way sometimes making many assumptions perhaps and taking things for granted and sometimes missing the message entirely. and yet it is actually quite a complex thing we ask ourselves to do. Poetry then is different and yet hmmmm yes it is fascinating ponder these dumb or simple questions sometimes. Gives a new appreciation of a well worn thing. 4 Aug 2007 @ 10:36 by swanny : Stigmergy I was just pondering it as an emergence when it struck me that hmmmm it could be the result of stigmergy. Stigmergy is a natural process where one creature creates something with an intent of some sort and then others gradually add onto it until it becomes an entity in its own right. Usually its applied only to physical structures but it strikes me that that process would meld nicely into where language reading and writing are concerned as well. Stigmergy seems to follow some kind of subconscious intelligence or rules too it would seem. So in that sense it is a stigmergic creation or invention following some primeval notions. ed 4 Aug 2007 @ 10:51 by swanny : Nomads I was going to suggest that somewhat like the making of bronze, writing emerged spontaneously and simultaneously around the world but then realized it wasn't very big in the Americas as far as we know at about 4 thousand years ago. A key element thus seems to be that it developed only in settled and agrarian cultures and not nomadic ones. So language or more specifically writing thus seems to have developed in agrarian cultures spontaneously via a stigmergic process that also seems to have taken into account and reflect regional diversities ie: accents, anomalies etc. The internet now seems to be emerging or developing in a similar manner although due to its global nature seems to not reflect the regions diversities as strongly but focuses more on the global commonalities. 4 Aug 2007 @ 11:08 by swanny : Cave drawings But still that doesn't answer the original query ie what was the impetus, the need, the goal, the purpose, the flight of fancy even. We have to go back to 20000 years ago at the inception I think of cave drawings. Why were they created and usually by the medicine peoples of the tribes. They say it was the shamans and the sharing of their cave drawings between each others tribes that saved the regular folk of the tribes from killing each other off for mere survival. The shamans were persuing something it seems. Something more than hunger and cold etc. Knowledge, wisdom, beauty etc. perhaps. They joined forces with each other and created a tapestry of something. Meaning? Truth? Natural Laws? ed 4 Aug 2007 @ 12:14 by swanny : wanderlust Two words come to mind.... "free form" and "vehicle" writing is a form that is free or freeing somewhat and it is also a vehicle of a sort... the "settled" tribes substituted there nomadic yearnings through the vehicle or free form of writing and manifested or realized them, their yearnings and wanderlust, through and in writing.... they began on immovable stone and then transferred their findings, learnings, meanings and these yearnings to moveable objects like bone and clay papyrus and paper written words thus became the means, mode or vehicle or free form of motion of and for their nomadic yearnings and wander lust. ed 5 Aug 2007 @ 11:31 by swanny : Trinity? Trinity Whole Systems 1. Male/Yang 2. Female/Yin and 3. Time... source = http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/news/seminars/Schrodinger/Lecture3.html The Whole/Trinity is greater than the sum of the Masculine/Yang, the Feminine/Yin and Time 3 = 1 > 3 Alfred G. Jonas Aug 5, 2007 Canada Dawn 5 Aug 2007 @ 12:23 by swanny : The flame of love I'm perhaps guessing here but am suspect that the flame of love I saw was the holy trinity. 3 = 1 > 3 trinity = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity ed Other entries in Articles 23 Aug 2022 @ 09:55: Gravity battery ref 23 Aug 2022 @ 09:53: Gravity battery ???. 2 May 2022 @ 06:45: How to Get Quality Dofollow Backlinks 23 Nov 2021 @ 18:26: What is Linkbuilding 25 Jun 2021 @ 15:37: Longitude at sea? 24 Aug 2020 @ 12:42: Climate and ocean 24 Aug 2020 @ 12:37: Climate update Aug 2020 15 Mar 2020 @ 19:11: Hang in.. 29 Jul 2019 @ 16:12: Onward 28 Feb 2019 @ 14:41: Solar Neighborhood pic
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