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Writing and Low-Temperature Characterization of Oxide Nanostructures

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Writing, Graphic Codes, and Asynchronous Communication.

Olivier Morin¹, Piers Kelly¹, James Winters¹

¹Minds and Traditions Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Topics in Cognitive Science

|October 12, 2018

Summary

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Writing, a graphic code, transmits information across time and space. However, its asynchronous communication potential is rarely exploited due to inherent inefficiencies, suggesting it didn't initially evolve for this purpose.

Keywords:

Communication Cultural evolution Literacy Pragmatics Repair Writing

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Linguistics
Communication Studies

Background:

Writing is a graphic code with enduring symbols, distinct from spoken or signed languages.
Unlike other graphic codes, writing encodes natural language, enabling powerful asynchronous communication.
The capacity for asynchronous communication via writing is often limited and not fully exploited.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a theoretical framework for understanding the evolution of written communication.
To analyze writing as a graphic code and its unique properties.
To investigate the factors limiting the exploitation of writing's asynchronous communication potential.

Main Methods:

Theoretical analysis of writing systems as graphic codes.
Comparison of writing with other graphic codes and natural languages.
Examination of the inherent inefficiencies of asynchronous communication.

Main Results:

Graphic codes, including writing, possess the capacity for transmitting information across time and space.
Writing's encoding of natural language enhances asynchronous communication capabilities.
Asynchronous communication is intrinsically inefficient, constraining shared information and repair, thus limiting its development.

Conclusions:

The full potential of writing for asynchronous communication is often unexploited.
Asynchronous communication faces inherent challenges that hinder the evolution of sophisticated codes.
Writing likely did not initially evolve to support asynchronous communication.