[MD] Ideas and Words

[Krimel]

Krimel:
The notion of sembiotic co-evolution still retains it. The question of
whether people understand words in the same way likewise presupposes the
distinction between words and ideas.

Ron raises the issue of context. Isn't context another form of
communication without words?

Ron:
Biological context from a social perspective would qualify I think. We
are able to derive meaning because we share evolutional instinct at a
social level. I'm down with that. 

[Krimel]
That works but I was thinking more about how we use space. The distance we
leave between us. The postures we adopt, the way we arrange space. Indians
saw the world as circular and lived in circular spaces. We see a Euclidian
world carved into lines and plains. We select spaces or create them because
of their nonverbal effects; cathedrals to make us feel small; counters to
give us status; places of power to evoke mood, that sort of thing.