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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Text is inside, Images outside? (28)
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:50:01 GMT
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- Entry: 28
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 09:24:14 EST
- From: IN%"RobertRoyar@Delphi.COM" Robert Royar, (C&CD Moderator)
- Message-id: <1992Nov15.092414.v7.018.1.Grendel.Lair@Cratylus>
- Subject: Text is inside, Images outside? (28)
- Reply-to: "Computers & Composition Digest (R. Royar)" <R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
- Organization: Cratylus Educational Software
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- I'm intrigued by the rationale for the following:
- >Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 17:22:09 CST
- >From: Irvin Peckham <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
- >Subject: RE: Multimedia (*MBU*)
- >Message-id: <01GR5GXXHHZK8WW4IY@ulkyvx.bitnet>
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- > Looking back at my query about how text might trace cognitive
- >processes (and I find that possibility questionable), I also
- >thought about how text seems to come from inside the head; images
- >don't. Images represent the stuff on the outside (which can
- >obviously *stand* for stuff on the inside), but text represents
- >the stuff on the inside (has more *presence* regarding thought).
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- How is it that images are outside ther mind while text is inside? Does this
- imply that we can't think imagistically? What do we do with color? Are
- colors internal or external?
-
- I think it's all in our heads--the buzzing stream. We're just lucky we can
- sort of agree on some of the properties of the supposed phenomena that lead
- to our impressions.
-
- Hey mer!!! What do you think as one of our resident thinkers of things
- musically philosophical?
-
- -- Robert Royar (RobertRoyar@Delphi.com) New York Institute of Technology
- "The guerrilla lives among the people like the fish in the sea."
- - Mao Zedong
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