Cheerskep, Here's a story in the UK Mail about how scientists have used sophisticated computer programs to decipher ancient scripts by "mapping" unknown characters and glyphs onto known contemporaneous scripts, such as Ugaritic and Hebrew.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296214/Computer-program-trans lates-ancient-language.html This has ramifications for our on-going discussion of whether any part, aspect, feature, or other element of meaning adheres to, persists in, remains in, or partakes of the physical object, writing in this case. After much controverting between you and me, I believe that (a) it's the humans who produce the meaning in their thought process, but that (b) there is a durable form in the object that preserves the triggers or stimuli that produce the meaning, and thus that preserves the meaning by proxy. In other words, meaning exists in a potential state in the object. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
