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What gives meaning to text? How do you know there's something more to text that the "phenomenology"?
by bogdanoff_2 5y ago
What gives meaning to text? How do you know there's something more to text that the "phenomenology"?
- hashimotonomora 5y agoThe way I see it, text is an external representation of human thought. If I could transmit my thoughts to you by telepathy, wee wouldn’t use text. Text cannot represent everything, so we invented drawings and paintings as representation of our thought. Text in itself has no meaning. The fact that a combination of letters generated by a Bayesian filter makes sense is just a coincidence. It just passes our “makes sense” filter which allow our brains to differentiate signal from noise. But it doesn’t represent anything.