Maturana's notion of Languaging is deeply rooted in his “Biology of Cognition” and in the epistemological orientation provided by the “autopoietic systems” theory developed with Varela.
Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worred that the use of text would threaten memory-based arts of rhetoric. In his *Dialogues*, arguing through the voice of Thamus, the Egyptian king of the gods, Plato claimed the use of this more modern technology would create "Forgetfulness in the learners; soulds, because they will not use their memories." and that those who adopt it would "appear to be omniscient and will generally know Nothing," with "the show of wisdom without the reality."
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chat | BrE tʃat, AmE tʃæt | A noun 1 Schwätzchen (Neutr.) Plausch (Mask.) (mainly South German , Austrian ) ▸ have a chat about sth sich über etw. (Akk.) unterhalten 2 no pl., no indef. art. (chatting) Geplauder (Neutr.) 3 (Computing) Chat (Mask.) attrib. Chat- B intransitive verb chatting chatted 1 plaudern ▸ chat with or to sb about sth mit jmdm. von etw. plaudern sich mit jmdm. über etw. (Akk.) unterhalten 2 (Computing) chatten PHRASAL VERB chat up transitive verb (British) (informal) sich heranmachen an (+ Akk.) (informal) (amorously) anmachen (informal) Chat | t͜ʃɛt | masculine noun (Computing) chat