Follow this thought experiment with me. Do you think humans will reach the modality of a linguistic transformation in the direction
of a kind of communication that is not dependent on culturally sanctioned dictionaries, but that is in the bones, in the neurons, in the synapses? So that the ambiguity, which attends all our discussions about reality, will be purged from our worldview.
It would be some kind of language between people that is a new kind of poetry, that’s the poetry of the dancing bee that tells us where the honey is.
Or it could also be akin to xenolinguistics, like the alien language called Heptapod B in the movie arrival, which was non-linear orthography or circular symbols called logograms that conveyed meaning rather than sound and communicated entire thoughts, sentences and paragraphs with different variations of that circular symbol.
So it effectively communicated with seemingly simple circular symbols - complete and highly complex sentences and holistic thoughts - functioning non-linearly to express multiple clauses or emotional concepts simultaneously.
Imagine having a language where you could express everything that it would normally take you a book or multiple books to express in a single symbol or within multiple variations of that symbol? So the language would also have to do with time. Of course, this is only one example out of many possibilities.
Think about all the different forms of communication in nature, and the most different and alien one would be the language of the Octopus, which is a texture changing, color changing telepathic dance of meaning. This beautiful creature has a very large repertoire of dots, blushes, spotting, ripples and so forth. This used to be thought of as camouflage, but those who study animal communication realized it is language. The Octopus doesn't make small mouth noises that move through space like us humans do. What the Octopus does is it is its own syntax. It doesn't generate syntax, it becomes syntax. So the mind of the octopus is worn on its surface. Its thoughts ripple across its geometry as color changes. It is in effect operationally a naked mind.
All that to get you to try and visualize and conceptualize new potential languages that are based on an entirely different form of communication that would take going through a looking glass into another kind of perception.
Do you see a linguistic evolution into this kind of a language in the future for mankind? If so, what do you think it would take for it to come about and how do you think it would come about?
It would be some kind of language between people that is a new kind of poetry, that’s the poetry of the dancing bee that tells us where the honey is.
Or it could also be akin to xenolinguistics, like the alien language called Heptapod B in the movie arrival, which was non-linear orthography or circular symbols called logograms that conveyed meaning rather than sound and communicated entire thoughts, sentences and paragraphs with different variations of that circular symbol.
So it effectively communicated with seemingly simple circular symbols - complete and highly complex sentences and holistic thoughts - functioning non-linearly to express multiple clauses or emotional concepts simultaneously.
Imagine having a language where you could express everything that it would normally take you a book or multiple books to express in a single symbol or within multiple variations of that symbol? So the language would also have to do with time. Of course, this is only one example out of many possibilities.
Think about all the different forms of communication in nature, and the most different and alien one would be the language of the Octopus, which is a texture changing, color changing telepathic dance of meaning. This beautiful creature has a very large repertoire of dots, blushes, spotting, ripples and so forth. This used to be thought of as camouflage, but those who study animal communication realized it is language. The Octopus doesn't make small mouth noises that move through space like us humans do. What the Octopus does is it is its own syntax. It doesn't generate syntax, it becomes syntax. So the mind of the octopus is worn on its surface. Its thoughts ripple across its geometry as color changes. It is in effect operationally a naked mind.
All that to get you to try and visualize and conceptualize new potential languages that are based on an entirely different form of communication that would take going through a looking glass into another kind of perception.
Do you see a linguistic evolution into this kind of a language in the future for mankind? If so, what do you think it would take for it to come about and how do you think it would come about?
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