In our last three articles, we declared the texts independent of the non-texts; We also note that the qualities and properties of science are determined by written language. We now turn to studying how written language influences the non-textual world. We start from changing the center of the world from non-texts to texts.

Our discussions are based on the world that exists in the mind, which controls human behavior.

1. A text-centered model of the world

With clarity and simplicity, texts are accumulated sequentially to create a clearer and more detailed world, through prolonged and intensive reading and textual thinking. On the contrary, complex, fragmented and accidental non-texts are incapable of accumulating with the same level of rigor. As a result, the non-texts are integrated into the accumulated textual framework, forming a text-centered model. Texts determine the scope and size of the model, while non-texts show the appearance of the surface.

The association between texts and non-texts is dynamic, both texts and non-texts evolve, create and emerge. The models of different systems are built from accumulations and associations over time and interactions between individuals.

The principles of theories, discoveries and inventions are not necessarily natural, but experimental, integrating what is desirable to humans in the textual framework, regardless of whether it occurs naturally. The principles are themselves the result of rigorous mental processing of the texts. Texts become invisible details of complex non-textual creations. They are the hidden components, the “trusty magic” behind the creatives.

2. Effects of text on non-text

Given the text-centered model, the effects of texts on non-texts are determined by the visual characteristics of the texts and the associations between texts and non-texts. Associations are arbitrary, complex, and cannot be clearly defined, since a text can correspond to any non-text. However, non-texts are integrated into texts because of their necessity. That is, the texts of basic and imminent needs are integrated first, while those of advanced needs come later. As a result, human societies continually advance as models grow.

The size of the established textual frame determines the amount and scope of creativity and productions based on existing non-texts. Due to arbitrary associations between texts and non-texts, this is of general and statistical significance, not deterministic for individual occurrences.

Created non-texts can once again be elements to integrate into the textual framework, however, they are unnatural and sustained by literate minds, so they need to be created again when they expire and stop functioning. When we combine components and use tools to create new products, the components and tools must be created and maintained by literate minds, unless they are directly from nature.

Printing, media, computer, programming, storage device, internet, telecommunications, etc. they are all examples of the extent of the textual, computational, and modeled mind. They facilitate and accelerate the direct realization of the textual mind with physical materials, strengthening and expanding the governance of the text.

3. Effects of different writing systems

The models of several systems can be composed of the same non-texts but different texts. The characteristics of writing systems determine their different effects. The readability of a writing system determines the established growth potential of a model, both in depth and breadth. The growth of an illegible[1] The model is one of less rigorous accumulation, less stability, and less independence. Therefore, it is potentially smaller in size. An unreadable system could present as much or even more visual information than a readable one. However, the sustainable elements of a text-built model of an unreadable system are less than the visual information it contains due to confusion, conflicts, ambiguity, contradictions found in mental processing.

As long as you are working with the same existing non-texts, the products for readable systems are more sophisticated and of higher quality than those for illegible systems because the products are made up of textual frames of greater detail.

Products are more abundant in readable systems than in illegible ones. Although it appears that non-textual creations in unreadable systems can accumulate as much as creations in readable systems as they appear in physical existence, they are dependent on nature or readable systems, as no writing system is in complete isolation today.

For the same writing system, the quality of the created world will remain the same for centuries if the system itself does not evolve. Technological advances, such as quantum communication and artificial intelligence, are quantitative advances in the model, however complex they may seem.

Models of writing systems compete, conflict and converge. Writing systems are responsible for the division and integration of their peoples and societies in all aspects, for example science, law, politics, education, commerce and economics.

4. Evolution of the world and future

The evolution of the human world was due to creations that were enabled by visual thinking. Since the advent of writing, evolution was based on accumulations of texts. That is, growth of models driven by human desire.

Mass literacy and literacy, in particular Latinization, have led to the omnipresence and governance of text in the world. Literacy is of great importance as it allows for sequential, discrete and simplistic mental processing.

Our future is predictable and unpredictable (true and uncertain). The textual part of the model is probably predictable, while the non-textual part is unpredictable. The qualitative future of the world is related to the evolution of writing systems. The quantitative future of the world is the growth of models. English-centric models are growing at the forefront and leading global evolution.

conclusion

The effects of texts are ubiquitous, tremendous, and fundamental to the human world. It remains a daunting task ahead to deepen and broaden the investigations.

[1] “Legible” and “illegible” are used as relative terms.