Krimel: The notion of sembiotic co-evolution still retains it. The question of whether people understand words in the same way likewise presupposes the distinction between words and ideas.
Ron raises the issue of context. Isn't context another form of communication without words? Ron: Biological context from a social perspective would qualify I think. We are able to derive meaning because we share evolutional instinct at a social level. I'm down with that. [Krimel] That works but I was thinking more about how we use space. The distance we leave between us. The postures we adopt, the way we arrange space. Indians saw the world as circular and lived in circular spaces. We see a Euclidian world carved into lines and plains. We select spaces or create them because of their nonverbal effects; cathedrals to make us feel small; counters to give us status; places of power to evoke mood, that sort of thing. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
