chronikewok

This reminds me of the film Arrival and relates to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1]regarding how language affects our perception and cognition. It's certainly a very interesting design (there's a hieroglyphic electrical circuit quality to it), but it wasn't clear what we can infer or gain from this non-linear form of writing. I feel like non-linear thinking is naturally how our brains work (or has more potential to work), but not how we have been trained to decode symbols, so it'd be interesting to see how this type of language might alter our cognition.

Would this help us look at ideas more holistically? Would this help us be more sensitive to relationships rather than just the objects? Could this open up new patterns of thinking? Lot's of interesting questions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

I like this idea of somehow augmenting human language with more associative structures for deeper meaning and shared understanding.

Maybe one implementation of this is that if the people we talk to (perhaps via a chat app) have their own Zettelkasten, the chat is supplemented/augmented by each others Zettelkasten (either publicly or privately) so we have a deeper understanding of each other and we can go on interesting tangents and create new links. This also aids in more progressive discussions.

(I'll add this concept to my Zettel and see where it takes me :) Thanks for the inspiration)

If you're coming to this fresh and want a slightly more approachable, video version: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0InepmCwQ