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What is the function of writing?
At first, it is a tool invented by a higher intelligent species to serves their communication.
But communication with what?
One might think writing, is made for communication with each other, but it might also be a tool to communicate with their inner selves, and a framework to translate every abstract ideas into concrete linear expression, namely language.
I asked and answered all of these thing because once I was thinking: Why do I need to write at all? Doesn't it seem that I don't have to write about anything I accomplish, but only the accomplishment actually matters? And last but not least, the central question is, why writing literature does not feel like writing code at all? If writing code is considered as "building", how can literate writing can be seen as one? The distinguish appear in the form of funtionality. Writing code actually does something. A function instructs the machine to do something, a typo and/or a tweak might or might not alter the functionality of that function.
The only thing, besides delivering ideas, writing seems to do is to connect different thoughts of one mind. If the mind is seen as a machine, then the writing can be the code, but it is not so effective. A program determine the machine to do a certain thing in a reproducible manner. But repeating a mantra does not guarantee to convince a mind to behave every time it was repeated. When we write, is it the writing that functions to alter our mind, or that the mind that functions to alter the writing? The answer seems to be both. Writing and mind are in a dynamics that eternally impacting each other.
But can we live solely on writing? As in, can we live solely on gaming? It seems that it is so easy for me to spend a day long not doing anything but only playing games; and it can be continued for so many consecutive days, even months and years. But it is a pain to write on a daily basis. Perhaps we don't use the mind that much and in a way similar to writing when playing games and continuously retrieving information is exhausting. Or perhaps that change in mind does not have any emotional effect. People can't find the fun in assembling a writing that will later alter their mind, than to assembling a code that will later perform some tasks on a computer.
Just a short while ago. I realize a strong belief that writing is mostly an isolated field and not connect to the other fields, and the only thing that matters is controlled by the elite, where flows of resource must be coordinate. But now I think that supply-demand model also work for writing, that at least in my world, some functions only work if it is triggered by writings. So contradict to my previous belief, writing becomes crucial and urgent if you can realize the problems that demand writing to function, in that case writing is not different than coding.