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%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.
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