Hi David,

I will assume that you are not giving me the idiot treatment.

So I will explain to you why you are wrong!

First, the distribution of ink is not arbitrary!

By analyzing the the distribution of the ink, you will observe

reoccurring structures (forms), we will call them letters. Again, these

letters are not distributed arbitrarily. further analysis reveals another

form, lines. Yet further analysis reveals even more structure!

These structures are not an artifact of the human mind, but truly physically

existent. As the continues with the analysis of the ink one will identify recurring

more structures and segmentation.

Eventually, you end up with a syntactic description of the structure.

This has nothing to do with an artifact of the human mind.

regards

Keith.

Am 10.02.2012 um 10:43 schrieb David Starner:

First, there's no syntactic structure in a book. There's only ink.
Anything above that level is purely an artifact of the human mind.