"Possession of human language is associated with a specific type of mental organization, not simply a higher degree of intelligence."--Noam Chomsky
Exploring language is a way to explore human cognition, but it is not the only way to explore human cognition: enter the image.
We tend to ignore how humans react to images. We don't have required classes in grade school that force us to interpret movies etc. Although the study of images is not new, it is growing in importance with advances in technology.
"The soul never thinks without images"--Aristotle
And the growing interest in images is exemplified in the Matrix where "reality and images have become thoroughly mixed."
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