CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pictogram, Neolithic
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Make up for the things our bodies lack. Help us accomplish something we can not accomplish on our own. To hunt and possibly transport and shelter ourselves. Notched bones (transmit info into abstract markings, essentially used to count moon. First data processing cycles, it isn"t clear what they are counting with the marks) Piles of pebbles (they can be built, don"t really last) Even with the two different ways of tallying: Pebbles = can count as many as you want. A symbol is anything which is shorthanded for anything else. A sign has a narrow precise unambiguous meaning. A picture of a person getting a drink from the water fountain is a sign, it essentially means. A tattoo on a person"s back is a symbol, symbolizes a meaning specifically for that person. A picture of a garland on a car is both a symbol and a sign, symbol of love and is a sign that someone has just gotten married.
