Harness The Wild Eye

Friday, April 16, 2010 - 15:28 in Psychology & Sociology

In Writing As Superpower we discussed that writing is really for the eye, at the expense of the hands, despite the fact that our brains may have evolved to comprehend speech.  We still prefer to 'listen' with our eyes, despite our eyes not having been designed for this. The way we write is for the hand but the shapes of our symbols are for the eye.  And that is due to culture. read more

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