Sacred Symbols of the Dogon
Laird Scranton
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Contribution to CWM
The polysemic encoding insight — a single Dogon sacred symbol encodes up to four independent layers of meaning depending on the interpretive frame. This directly inspired CWM's polysemic readout technique: reading the same rod through different eigenmode subsets yields independent data channels. Result: +297% capacity gain, the single largest improvement in the project.
Citation
Scranton, L. (2007). Sacred Symbols of the Dogon. Inner Traditions.
