Sunday, February 28, 2010

Cave symbols hint at 30,000-year-old origins of written communication

As the researcher says, "language maybe too strong a word," but two things here strike me as important:
  • concepts that cannot be drawn
  • social agreement on meaning
Still chewing on this one for now.

Here is the researcher's article in the New Scientist.

And here is another news story on the research.

2 comments:

  1. What do the sophists think about the possibility of concepts that can't be expressed in "even our" language? Ineffability, you know?

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  2. I think we are cool with them. Not everything can be represented.

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