{"id":229,"date":"2022-08-16T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:54:18","slug":"15-representation-and-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/15-representation-and-language\/","title":{"rendered":"15: Representation and Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/>Information is numinous, without intrinsic physical form itself, and yet only ever possible to transmit, communicate or record through representation in physical media.\u00a0 Ideas are given legal protection in patents, but paradoxically only protected when recorded in that patent.\u00a0 The notions in our head need to be externalised in order to communicate to others or give rise to action.\u00a0 However, this is not mere transmission of existing notions in our heads, but is a crucial part of crystallising those notions and indeed enabling us to reflect upon our own thinking.\u00a0 Language is at the heart of this transforming learning from imitation to oral, written and now digital culture, and yet of course the origins of language are themselves rooted in our physical existence and our innate abilities as meaning seekers to interpret one another and the world.\u00a0 Internalising these processes of representation and interpretation is perhaps what makes us human.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords:<\/span> Representation, Language, Ideas, Embodied cognition, Oral culture, Written culture, Digital culture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information is numinous, without intrinsic physical form itself, and yet only ever possible to transmit, communicate or record through representation in physical media.\u00a0 Ideas are given legal protection in patents, but paradoxically only protected when recorded in that patent.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}