Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Turing test
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 19:20:45 -0400

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

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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
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