Week 6 comments - memory
What impressed me most is how memory evolves when a primitive man become civilized. Here are my major takeaways.
1. Human used signs to turn the image into details.
2. When images merge with human perceptions, the visual image will be stored in memory, constant and stable. It is the image representation that proceeds the transformation of the concepts, the internalization of the culture, and the reproduction of signs and symbols.
3. The development of memory starts from using the memory to dominate the memory. It requires an accumulation of the social-cultural practice and psychological experience in order to the creation and reconstruction of the memory.
4. Memory was evolved when a primitive man learns from memorizing magical origins to the use auxiliary means, from the natural use of memory to dominate memory (make better use of memory in a more systematic way that consists a complex representation of signs?)
The evolution of Chinese characters can be a good example. There are a number of Chinese characters that are actually drawn from just looking at the world, which is called pictographs(see examples). The ancient Chinese carved the "images" onto the oracle bone as a way to memorize things. Those characters are formed from the image registration and was furthered documented in the social-culture. They not only draw what they saw in the world, but later come out with more complex combination of the elements in the creation of symbols. For example, in the character 家（family), see the last example，which was first created as a pictograph of a pig inside a house. As the reason why the character for home in Chinese depicts a pig in a house rather than a person, one explanation is because pigs were domesticated and lived inside the house.
1. Human used signs to turn the image into details.
2. When images merge with human perceptions, the visual image will be stored in memory, constant and stable. It is the image representation that proceeds the transformation of the concepts, the internalization of the culture, and the reproduction of signs and symbols.
3. The development of memory starts from using the memory to dominate the memory. It requires an accumulation of the social-cultural practice and psychological experience in order to the creation and reconstruction of the memory.
4. Memory was evolved when a primitive man learns from memorizing magical origins to the use auxiliary means, from the natural use of memory to dominate memory (make better use of memory in a more systematic way that consists a complex representation of signs?)
The evolution of Chinese characters can be a good example. There are a number of Chinese characters that are actually drawn from just looking at the world, which is called pictographs(see examples). The ancient Chinese carved the "images" onto the oracle bone as a way to memorize things. Those characters are formed from the image registration and was furthered documented in the social-culture. They not only draw what they saw in the world, but later come out with more complex combination of the elements in the creation of symbols. For example, in the character 家（family), see the last example，which was first created as a pictograph of a pig inside a house. As the reason why the character for home in Chinese depicts a pig in a house rather than a person, one explanation is because pigs were domesticated and lived inside the house.
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