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From: thom@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 20 Apr 91 20:32:13 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.163130.6642@sctc.com> beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:
>cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
>
>>Can you imagine having this discussion in pictures? 
>
>Not even remotely.  This sentence is a real crusher, and should neatly
>end this string (of course, it won't . . . . :->).

Having this discussion in pictures would be called a movie, a video, etc. We do
it everyday, it is the normal course of communication.

The other thing to consider in this discussion of images vs text is how our
minds work. The question being do we have text minds or image minds? I don't
think in text any more than I think in mathematical notation. I do use text and
mathematical notation to express certain thoughts, to communicate. My mind 
does seem to work with images best, and at best I'd say I have a "multi-media" 
mind.

--Thom Gillespie