Wednesday, December 20, 2006

On availability heuristics



"Still, the speech of beavers and ants is apparently by gesture; i.e., it is only visual. If so, such languages are natural, not acquired. The animals that speak them possess them a-borning: they all have them, and they are everywhere the same. They are entirely unchanging and make not the slightest progress. Conventional language is characteristic of man alone. That is why man makes progress...and animals do not."


Still speculating on how spatial awareness might interfere with linguistic pattern language, Sam Renseiw stepped into another corridor-like setting, high and low, encountering Corbusier's Le Modulor figure, life size. View the short moving audio-visual mash-up by clicking here or enter the path above. (patafilm # 321, 01'31'', 7.2 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version for PC available at Blip.tv)