44/ Language is the quintessential standard. While still linguistically fragmented, language allows people to weave networks by empowering them with the ability to communicate complex ideas and coordinate their actions.
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Thank you for this. Brings back fond memories of Mass + Text, a 2013 personal project that wanted to understand the relationship between language, objects, and the communities they anchorhttps://medium.com/mass-text/what-is-mass-text-ad516537572c?source=linkShare-d30738e708a6-1517811416 …
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Why Information Grows looks like the apex of the idea I was groping at blindly here, on the idea that language is literally mass (or: how mass sublimes into information, and then congeals back into mass) https://medium.com/mass-text/language-as-tactile-user-interface-288efd80cd3c?source=linkShare-d30738e708a6-1517811599 … Thank you for this.

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You might like The Long Earth. Plot explores ideas of embodied cognition (a robot discovers there're things he can only know when his consciousness is embodied) and a device that's like a mandala - the "tech" is in how it tunes the user into mental states https://www.amazon.com/Long-Earth-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0062068687 …
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read the book, and really enjoyed your tweetstorm about it.
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I read this book twice earlier, and still read through your tweet storm all over again today, to refresh my memory of the wisdom from this book.
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Listened to this book on Audible (5hrs). Well worth the listen. This summary was great!
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Sorry this Tweet is too old, Twitter does not allow to retrieve it. I'm really sorry about that
You can find all the unrolls for this user here: https://threadreaderapp.com/user/Kpaxs
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@threadreaderapp unroll please -
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