Pictures and Mind

James Gleick's book The Information, made me think.

Humans internalize speech, our throats are ready for complex sound production, and our ears for decoding the sound signals; the Information in the sound waves. Contrariwise there is no picture decoding tools, our hands make pictures, our eyes see them, and something decodes the intended Information in the pictures. This is new; it happened around 30,000 years ago. Homer recited the Iliad and the Odyssey, he didn't write them. Somebody wrote them later. The tools of the poet are older than pictures. Intonation, rhyme, and several other Information innate technologies for Information processing.

Good book.