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Time is the context that gives meaning to everything in this world, and conversely everything that has meaning for us in this world, everything that has a place in our lives, exists in time. This is not true of abstractions and re-presentations of entities, but all that is is subject to time.
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Hints at the graduations of meaning and transfomation of meaning as information is collected, recorded and distributed. I.e. In the fist and last especially it moves through time and can change in tht movent (chinese whispers, transcription errors etc) though after the second it remains frozen and eternally the same except for erosion by processes not related to meaning like the aging, crumbling and disintegration of a page of paper. Consider how spoken language changes or evolves relative to its exposure to written language. Think also about the increase in meaning from words written for a character in a script with or without the words of the other characters before or after them (time abstracted) and then again in those words expressed aloud, with or without nonverbal aspects of thei bing expressed.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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