Language is a way of composing functions by making them low dimensional and discrete. I think of artificial languages (programming and math) as bottoming out in logical functions, natural languages in perceptual categories (which includes the perception of transitions and agency)
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Yes, as a child, and later I looked at synthetic natural languages (Ithkuil etc.) and tried to find improvements. I still think that a designer language could improve our cognitive abilities, but eventually this is just the scripting layer and the hard work is done below that.
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Closures, better relative pointers and loop constructs, better spatial, temporal and hierarchical references, distributions, mnemonics for numbers and paths, ...
12:02 AM - 3 May 2019
from Palo Alto, CA
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