It is believed that writing destroys the ability to memorize and weakness thoughts. Those who use it tend to forget as they related on an exterior mechanism in order to remember. I think the process of writing is to your mind as exercise is to your body; for we all, as human beings, it is very normal that each year we lose our memory, according to this we need to use those "external mechanisms" that help us to do different things; for instance, writing makes us think and this practice allows us to remember our thoughts, feelings, actions and life.
By the other hand, Writing establishes context-free language and autonomous discourse that cannot be doubted or directly questioned because the written discourse is separated from its author. Obviously you as a reader can question what do you read, in spite this the written discourse it is not separated from the author because it shows what the author thinks, feels, etc, most of the time in a clearer way, understandable for every body. For example when I write I think I am transmitting my feelings and thoughts, I want to share that and I want the reader get my point. For me a text is like the curriculum vitae of the author.
Nowadays, writing is the means through which speech can be transmitted and preserved. This statement is accepted by many as an absolute truth, however writing is not the only way to transmit and preserve the speech; the cultures with oral traditions deny this fact, because for many years they have kept their stories and their history through this practice.
According to that, it is normal that writing must be understood as technology and therefore, as artificial. This thought comes to our mind because of our oral tradition and all the elements use for writing, for many years we just needed our mouth and mind to tell stories and communicate between each other, now I dare to say that writing is technology and artificial because from many years until now we see new things, tools, machines, elements, etc, use for writing.
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