#insight | #reduction Given a context we might find that further reduction of meaningful functional primitives leads to seemingly **Asemic** primitives. An example of this, language, where words are the functional primitives, we can derive other words from them, compose them into phrases or reduce them into meaningless strokes, letters. The passage from letters to words constitute a threshold where meaning happens, beyond that meaning keeps getting refined. #idea | #linguistics #language #concept #semantic #glyph Related to [[Toward Hyper-structural Tribal Modes]] What would a language emerging from a protocol-oriented tribe look-like. What if instead of an alphabet of non-functional primitives we work with an ensemble of functional primitives and build both upward (composition) and sideways (derivation) and also downward (de-functionalization).