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I think about this as shape and color. No one ever saw a shape that wasn’t colored and likewise there are no colored things that do not have a shape. Also, disp
by catgoose 3y ago
I think about this as shape and color. No one ever saw a shape that wasn’t colored and likewise there are no colored things that do not have a shape.
Also, displaying text without a font is not possible.
Text is the surface of the ocean where waves emerge, and while they have their own properties and may seem to naively have agency, they are an expression of the underlying ocean.
- espe 3y agonicely put! many aspects of text at least historically have much to do with its materiality (also in a cognitive development sense, learning how to write etc.). what we can think about nowadays is that text and speech might not be a necessary materiality of language. language might depend more on conceptual systems. more like a substrate of intelligence and that might as well be nonhuman (to stay on topic).