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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Many things await us. http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/25.2.2.htm Current language is a reflection of our ability to process information. Imagine being able to think in terms of 1 billion simultaneous scenarios. How might you communicate ideas at that scale? Way more detailed glyphs for one thing.
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Replying to @wbic16 @michael_nielsen
Listening to a music track which has thousands of instruments layered in millions of patterns??
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What's an example? A friend showed me something like this once, but I've completely forgotten even the name. It seemed really cool.
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