Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What this discussion has turned into for me is a whole discussion of abstract symbols, like language whether verbal, visual, or tactile. Language was developed as an abstract symbol set to allow quicker, more precise communication. Just imagine asking a teenager in 4000BC to get some water from the creek. It is hard enough now. On a tangent, maybe that is why Indian movies are not successful in the West. We just do not get the symbology. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Afterswift@aol.com Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:33 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Turing test In a message dated 8/8/03 12:28:04 PM, aalmansi@yahoo.com writes: << To represent something (before a particular audience), one needs to find the "sign" that can be interpreted (by that particular audience, but not necessarily by everybody else)as that thing one wants to represent. >> It's amazing how quickly the viewer accepts a consistent convention, whatever his or her cultural background. It seems human nature to learn quickly if some orienting symbol is repeated. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html