What, if anything, lies beyond language? Are there modes of thought and communication that are strictly more powerful than language? Can we invent new forms as much more powerful than verbs and nouns (etc) as human language is more powerful than the communications of chimps?
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Another analogy is to the way computer scientists have gradually developed more powerful ideas about programming languages: things like Lisp macros, lazy evaluation, higher-order functions, etc. These ideas were, in some sense, discovered, & can transcend earlier ideas.
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You already listed math, which I’d argue is a powerful, if narrow, tool. You might also argue that different modes of story telling, poetry, novels, film, modern journalism, etc. each follow and invented structural form that supersede basic language
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This https://twitter.com/tsvenson/status/993950405326528512 … TED-talk about how law haven't yet got digitized is interesting about how we can reason about language in improved ways.
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