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Humans are writers.
From
our dawn, as a the dawn of the human species, we have always found the need to
communicate and strived to find ways to do it. We do not know for sure [REF?], but sound was, communicate. Millions of years of evolution equipped most
likely, the first choice. We are built animals with
sound-making machines. Sound is easy to modulate and manipulate complex instruments to
send information efficiently. Although very local, at exchange information. While sharing news about threats is an efficient way of increasing anyone's chances of survival, for us, that has soon become the least
at interesting purpose of communication. Communication is the
beginning, it also was very effective, as fast key to
deliver open the gates of our brains and
absorb. The best in dangerous situations, which is probably why most mammals have evolved with vocal chords [REF?]. everything that goes on inside. Complex language that could accurately describe our abstract thoughts and feelings developed and that was the step that set us apart from other species.
But Yet, that was not enough.
At least, not for us, humans. While speaking evolved into complex languages, Spoken language had many limitations and we felt imprisoned by
the its unbearable
locality, in both locality. We needed a form of communication which would span through space and
time, time. Something which would make our finite and miniscule spark of
sound. We are an exploring species. Our genes evolved us existence immortal. The answer was yet to
make be written in stone, \href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi}{literally}, but when it was, we soon realized its power. Writing elevated us
curious and
go beyond our limits. We wanted made us progress as a species. It was not simply a tool to make our thoughts
durable, but also a way for people from other places and times to
do that too explore new ideas and
we let them free by writing build on them.
Of Single minds created the
many forms of communication that animals share with us, they do not share writing [REF]. Writing is difficult, it requires more thinking as it is inspectable by anybody in seeds, but the
distant future collectivity could finally make them sprout and
in distant places. But that is what elevate us. bloom, thanks to writing.
The permanence of scripta was appealing Science is founded on writing. Progress and
comforting. It made us immortal. After all, what new discoveries are
we, if not the result of our own thoughts? But the advantage was not only egoistical. Writing meant progress. Think of all the milestones of humans as a
species: they involve writing. The code of Hammurabi revolutionized the way we dealt with justice by explicitly putting on stone - literally - the law. Nobody could change it, slow and
it made its way to the present age. Populations fall, but writing stays. We know about history mainly thanks to preserved scripta. Writing outsmarts us. The knowledge of billions [how many more exactly?] of brains since Hammurabi's times in 1745 BC to today was added, step by step. All that experience is a source of knowledge steady process which
any of the smartest people on Earth could
fully comprehend. And this is how writing allowed us to become smarter than not happen within a single
brain: by sharing it. We became lifetime. As Isaac Newton once stated in a
single spatio-temporal brain, getting more knowledgeable, word by word. And that letter to his rival Robert Hooke: \textit{If I have seen further, it is
how everything we do suddendly becomes useful: by
writing it.
Science, too, is useful only when written. I am sure you are aware of "Stand standing on the
shoulder of giants" [WHO?], described for [EXPLAIN]. But then sometimes i think of those giants. They stood on shoulders of
giants, too. The giant is giants}. Those giants are not
just a smart person, single personalities, but a
smart person with all the experience, and in this case: science, collection of revisited accumulated
from the past. That could have not happened without writing. Unfortunately, writing may annoy most scientists and may feel dull thoughts and
monotonous. It is the last part ideas of
a research project, and we, singles, learn nothing many people from
it. But writing the past. Writing is one of the most important part of
research. Writing is how research, it
gets to the audience and sends a message across. But mainly, writing is
how science becomes validated, and what makes you one of
"the giants". \textit{"the giants"}.