tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636422447654352249.post4785380914272082878..comments2022-06-12T11:20:41.146-05:00Comments on Welcome to Science Fiction: Your blue may be my greenAdam Wykeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02534325888137250921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636422447654352249.post-28644793619521351142009-06-24T17:52:54.258-05:002009-06-24T17:52:54.258-05:0080% of the text - that is, seeing "he looked ...80% of the text - that is, seeing "he looked at her and sighed" and making the connection of who 'he' is and who 'her' is.<br /><br />Books are a little different, though - the number of interpretations is limited on a textual level, because of the constrained nature of individual words. I would suggest that they are not so limited on a conceptual level, however, because valid sentences rapidly approach infinity.Geoffrey Wykeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994573677173072411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636422447654352249.post-80175510795443754332009-06-24T13:35:17.467-05:002009-06-24T13:35:17.467-05:00What will really be interesting is to see whether ...What will really be interesting is to see whether or not the progeny of either you or your brother, should either of you have any, will inherit this mode from you...<br /><br />I am almost certainly on the other (I sometimes think less fortunate) end of the spectrum: I read very carefully, sometimes backtracking over a single sentence multiple times until I am sure I understood everything about that sentence. It is not uncommon to find me sitting with a book in my hands, staring out into space rather than reading. Something has piqued my philosophical interests, or a particularly Gordian moral dilemma has made itself known to me. <br /><br />As a result, I have read only a fraction of what you read within a large percentage of the same time-frame. <br /><br />It would seem that evolutionary variation exists even within our adopted reading styles. What I want to know is - will one meme eventually dominate the gene pool, or will both cohabit, surviving in different niches?<br /><br />P.S. To be a devil's advocate: You say you understand 80% of what you read, but I'm not sure how you get that number when you apparently believe that an <i>infinite</i> number of valid and useful interpretations exist. Given that, no one would ever understand but a small fraction, approaching zero, of the whole.Adam Wykeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02534325888137250921noreply@blogger.com