Sensation, information and language

Sensory modes of information if we construe information as just the "content" of sensation, then we must consider that information comes with an inherent mode associated with one of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell).

Sensation, information and language

	Sensory modes of information
	Language and sensory modes our admitted bias toward a linguistic conception of information tends to emphasize information perceived through visual and auditory modes, but we can easily imagine tactile linguistic information (e.g., Braille). The other traditional senses (taste and smell) are perhaps harder to imagine in this context.

Sensation, information and language

	Sensory modes of information
	Language and sensory modes
	Is music linguistic in nature? music provides an interesting study in categorization: in some sense it can be reduced to sequences of symbols (e.g., a score) and it displays hierarchical structure, perhaps even according to some grammatical rules. But in practice we would usually think of it as in stark contrast to language in the textual sense.

Sensation, information and language

	Sensory modes of information
	Language and sensory modes
	Is music linguistic in nature?
	The influence of brain on mind although we like to think of our thoughts and sensations as existing in some abstract realm, the physical reality of the brain and sensory organs of course constrains and informs the character of our mental existence (consider music and language in light of hemispheric disparity, or the phenomenon of synesthesia)