Oral Tradition
2 patterns in this domain
“Four words, a thousand years of wisdom”
2/7 frontierProverbial Compression
画蛇添足 — four characters, four syllables.
languagecompressionknowledge-transmissionculture
7 domains“Say it twice so it survives the journey”
3/7 frontierRedundant Encoding
Before writing existed, humanity's most important knowledge was stored in human memory and transmitted orally.
error-correctioninformation-theoryresilienceredundancy
7 domains