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> No. Huh, text definitely encodes multimodal experiences, it's just not as accurate and as rich encoding as the encodings of real sensations.
by spyder 2y ago
> No.
Huh, text definitely encodes multimodal experiences, it's just not as accurate and as rich encoding as the encodings of real sensations.
- bmitc 2y agoIt's just a description, not an encoding.
- ambicapter 2y agoI don't think GP is asserting that the multimodal encoding is "more rich" or "more accurate", I think they are saying that the felt modality is a different thing than the text modality entirely, and that the former isn't contained in the latter.
- heyjamesknight 2y agoText describes semantic space. Not everything maps to semantic space losslessly.
- Terr_ 2y ago> text definitely encodes multimodal experiences Perhaps, but only in the same sense that brown and green wax on paper "encodes" an oak tree.
- fluidcruft 2y agoLanguage encodes what people need it to encode to be useful. I heard of an example of colors--there are some languages that don't even have a word for blue. https://blog.duolingo.com/color-words-around-the-world/ https://blog.duolingo.com/color-words-around-the-world/