Handwriting

Plato said that since the invention of writing and reading, humans would stop reading themselves. As a result, knowledge of truth would decline because only a few who knew the technique of literacy would narrate the world. Interestingly, all of this was said by Plato through writing. Handwriting gives us easy access to memory and the wound; it is where we have the ability to generate organic texts, where the body and its organs are not displaced by external influences or interruptions but rather move through distinct neural circuits. The hands have a strong presence in the cerebral cortex, so handwriting engages the brain more than typing. The pen and handwriting generate a deeper encoding of the organic experience at the moment of generating the text.