FT24001: Verbal à la Text

    Reading text and listening to a conversion have drastically separate modes. Reading is a means to speedily receive information while a conversation is not remarkably fast. Instead conversations are how to receive updates on the state of something known. Reading text, one can read as leisurely as one pleases but we often want to choose a pace that efficiently incorporates the meaning of the text into our attention. However, videos largely serve as a means to pass time. They may have some educational stance but the density of information because of the limits of the verbal amount of ideas that can be easily be presented.

    It is possible now on many websites to speed the playback of videos. In away this is making more assumptions that one is consuming the video like it is a text. The outcome is more information in a shorter period of time but there is still a limitation. One is that the jarring change of the voice that is sped up which we will have to tolerate if we want to choose this method. Reading at different speeds does not fundamentally alter the appearance of the words we are understanding. Second is that the information is not made at the speed which it is sped up to and the quality of information is still not dense like a text is.

    Most academic works are in text. Lectures expound on these texts but only in reference to the original textual material that one would expect to read if one takes the subject matter seriously or is expected to have an expertise in the information. To this end, if a verbal interview was subsequently converted into text, the quality of the ideas compared to an edited work originally intended for text would still apply. There is a fundamental distinction of a train of thought made primarily for text.  

    Words are how we interact with our own being and the beings that surround us. Yet verbal conversation is not how we fully immerse our self and is more closely related to pure experience prior to forming ideas. Text is where our mind is more rooted in being purely and where we like to document our fuller understanding of whatever it is we are thinking about.