blog traffic analysis
This-essay is a7804212.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %MODES OF COMMUNICATION 780421 Physically pointing at some object is probably the most primitive mode of communication. Physical pointing calls attention to an object; it focuses the attention of the pointer and of any observer of the pointer upon the object of the pointing. The pointing communication presumes that the observer is able to directly experience that to which the pointer is calling attention. Physical pointing in the presence of a blind person will be ineffective, unless the blind person physically follows the pointing through touch to locate the object to which the pointer seeks to call attention. In such a situation th blind person "sees" through touch and encounters the reality which is the focus of the pointing. Verbal descriptions of physical objects are at a significantly higher level of sophistication as a mode of communication---than is physical pointing in the presence of the focal object. Verbal descriptions offered in the absence of an object may be used to point to the object--- the description needing to be only good enough to uniquely identify which object the describer has in mind, one which the listener has previously experienced or may soon have occasion to directly experience. The description is not mistaken for the object to which it points---any more than the pointing finger is mistaken for the object to which it points---the focus is upon a reality which is independent of the pointing. The purpose of the pointing is to occasion a direct experience of the independent reality--- not to replace the reality with a substitute representation. The pointing is not intended to take the place of direct experience of the reality pointed to. These basic features of primitive communication are often forgotten in sophisticated intellectual communications. Often the communications are taken to be equivalent to the realities to which they point---to such an extent that the participants cease to have independent experiences of independent realities---their lives become smothered in formal representations which are taken to be equivalent to independent realities; yet the representations are reflexive interdependent communicative inventions of people slowly losing touch with reality as they invent their own independent representations of what is really real. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
Lines beginning with a percent sign are  KEYWORDS  for use
in ESSAY-System Searches.  Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ =  a  means 99,
@ =  b  means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.

Links to date-adjacent essays are near  page top & bottom.

Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER near the top or bottom of a web page of essayz.com 1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com 2. Find brief-essays via keywords 3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION 4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK 5. GoTo Action & Information Center 6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month 7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts 8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE

This-essay is a7804212.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. These 5 lines echo top lines. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One