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Information Theory part 1: Origins of Cuneiform & Hieroglyphics



The origins of cuneiform & hieroglyphic writing systems. The rebus principle is introduced via Cave Drawings, Narmer Palette, Hunters Palette, Cuneiform Accounting Tablets.

references (book):
– The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Drucker)
– Letter Perfect (David Sacks)
– Empire and Communications (Innis)
– The Science of Language (Chomsky)

web:
http://cuneiform.library.cornell.edu/
http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/

Stock footage thanks to:
– University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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26 thoughts on “Information Theory part 1: Origins of Cuneiform & Hieroglyphics
  1. if you're interested, i'm sure this isn't the only information on Information Theory. You could google it? Also too, a good way to remember things is commonly through repetition. ^_^ I guess I'm fortunate to have not discovered this stuff, until they had made a few em.

  2. For anybody who enjoyed this video. A podcast called RadioLab (very boring name) uses similar presentation techniques to convey ideas. Albeit through audio. Extremely highly recommended if you commute or have any spare listening time.

  3. Very cool. I like how you guys moved right into semiotics and the evolution of language as a relation between humans and their environment. The pictogram, ideogram, Rebus principle reminds me very loosely of C.S. Peirce's triad: icon, index, symbol.

  4. BTW, the pictogram for middle. That is literally the Chinese charact for middle; zhong. Pronouced "jong". The word or phrase for China, in "Chinese" is "zhong guo" (jong gooah), literally meaning "middle country"

  5. Wow, I am so pleasantly surprised by the quality of production and writing in these videos. Keep it up you guys— these series are amazing!!!

  6. This is basically pretty good, but why on earth do you use "the mathematical symbol for all" in explaining Alice's abstraction of the sound from the concrete image?

  7. oh my god. The video is great but the woman's vice is very high pitched and very irritating. The narrator at the beginning should've done the whole video.

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