Literacy is about 5,000 years old. Since it was invented it has
transformed human societies and knowledge fundamentally. Indeed,
civilisation is built on literacy. What is it about the process of
making marks on paper or other surfaces that gives literacy this
remarkable power? 'The Literate Mind: A Study of Its Scope and
Limitations' proposes that the evolved, pre-literate qualities of
the human mind combined with the representational capacities of
alphabets and other symbol systems provide uniquely powerful means
for the generation and storage of knowledge. The creation, storage
and sharing of texts augment the social and cognitive capacities of
human minds and allow us to develop social institutions within
which further new knowledge can be deployed and used. Taking an
approach that is equally applicable to print and digital media, the
book draws on evolutionary theory and the theory of computation to
explain the remarkable power of literacy and its transformational
effects on human society and knowledge. It demonstrates that the
universe of possible texts is infinite in extent, and proposes that
the combination of a reader and a text can be treated as an
ecosystem of unlimited scope.
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