327 - Language of the Future
Ever wondered why does aliens always use click sounds to communicate? ... in almost all of the encounter stories they are pictured as using clicks to communicate ... let the stories be real or fabricated ... its not the problem under discussion ... but if they exist there is a very good chance they would be communicating in clicks ... or to be exact their knowledge of phonetics will be superior than our primitive one ... provided ofcourse aliens exist atall ...
Why do our superior brain lack speed in calculating numbers when compared to computers? ... supercompters? teraflops? ... can we ever match that level of number crunching speed? ... you can be sure we must be doing a lot more than computers ... because supercomputers can never match our intelligence ...
Problem ... the problem is speed ... the bottleneck is the inefficiency in processing the input into output ... now dont you think, depending on the number of times a story is translated serially using many languages the end result will not be the same as the start ... are we using our brains as we should be? ... no i dont think so ...
Because consider this simple case ... we saw a picture ... or we want to recall and tell to a friend what we have seen ... now the input will be the signals from our eyes ... output will be in his language ... a string of sounds governed by his vocal chord and the rules of his mothertongue ... all the stages works in the least efficient way possible ... for example we try to convert raster images captured by our eyes into vectors ... then those vectors are assigned a specific class name and all the links between those classes are stored ... essentialy this contitutes our memory? ... right? ... and in recollection important data mayb lost ... if the algorithm i mentioned in one of my previous posts came into existence ... we no longer have to shuttle back and forth converting ... no more language processing needed ... our language it seems less efficient to me ... ofcourse our current language system is also a kind of algorithm .. having building blocks like letters, phrases, sentences, grammer etc ... but the problem lies in the type and usage of the algorithm ... some languages are easier to learn ... we have to drop the idea of converting(into classes) and processing(linking them together) to processing of raw data into an encoded form ... our current system of language processing adds all kinds of noise to the stored data ... prone to degradation without any parity or error correction built in ... got the point in designing something without the limitations? ...
Now consider this case ... instead of teaching our current language to a newborn ... he was raised by machines ... taught by computers ... in the place of our primitive language he begins to see, hear, touch and taste the world in bits and bytes ... and since our language consists of a base 26 system ... he mayb be able to better manipulate and store the data he captured ... and in the case of output ... with a string 9 encoded sounds he will be able to communicate a lot more than a simple word like "PARACHUTE" can convey ... to be exact he may be able to transmit megabytes of data ... consider encoding a memory the scenes and the sound which you have experienced ... imagine tranfering them without any loss of quality in the exact way you have experienced it ... now you got the point? ... its like a comparison between analog and digital transmission ...
Its high time we changed our language to a more superior one ... to a digital equivalent ... in which there will be no loss during the storage and transmission of our priceless memories ... efficiency in storage and communication are also plus points ... Lets hope for a better tomorrow ...
Mark my words ... we will be over run by machines not only in speed ... in intelligence also .. if we didnt realise where our mistakes are ... find a better system to communicate or we are lost ... if we ever survive you can be sure we will be communicating in clicks :D ... look at evolution ... lesser intelligent of the species cant speak using complex sound patterns ... as species evolved and as their intelligence level increased they could distinguish sounds and could count ... higher IQ levels could count more ... if a crow can count only upto 4, an ape can count upto mayb ten or more ... a human could count thousands and could understand mega, tera, peta, exa, etc ... among the humans themselves some people with lesser IQ cant manipulate numbers ... number system is a type of language ... Im sure in the future we will be seeing, hearing, touching, talking and recollecting things in numbers ... Or a better alternative a better language ...
Problem ... but there is a danger .. the danger is in losing our power of imagination ... or mayb creativity ... the noise and insecurity of our stored data or input and the output makes us so unique and creative ... it may be lost forever ... we may become a society governed only by the perfect logic and perfect laws of a numeric system ... movies, music, entertainment, celebrating a birthday or even playing with a balloon may seem pointless in such a case ... such a case may exist(A highly developed civilisation of Aliens) ... Now im stepping into another territory ... Ok more about that in a future post ;)
I dont know how, when or what ... but im sure there must be some better alternatives out there ... which our primitive intelligence level could not comprehend ...
"It is yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value" - Arthur C Clarke
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People die younger.. because god loves them so much..
I am still on earth.. because there's a goddess here who loves me
Why do our superior brain lack speed in calculating numbers when compared to computers? ... supercompters? teraflops? ... can we ever match that level of number crunching speed? ... you can be sure we must be doing a lot more than computers ... because supercomputers can never match our intelligence ...
Problem ... the problem is speed ... the bottleneck is the inefficiency in processing the input into output ... now dont you think, depending on the number of times a story is translated serially using many languages the end result will not be the same as the start ... are we using our brains as we should be? ... no i dont think so ...
Because consider this simple case ... we saw a picture ... or we want to recall and tell to a friend what we have seen ... now the input will be the signals from our eyes ... output will be in his language ... a string of sounds governed by his vocal chord and the rules of his mothertongue ... all the stages works in the least efficient way possible ... for example we try to convert raster images captured by our eyes into vectors ... then those vectors are assigned a specific class name and all the links between those classes are stored ... essentialy this contitutes our memory? ... right? ... and in recollection important data mayb lost ... if the algorithm i mentioned in one of my previous posts came into existence ... we no longer have to shuttle back and forth converting ... no more language processing needed ... our language it seems less efficient to me ... ofcourse our current language system is also a kind of algorithm .. having building blocks like letters, phrases, sentences, grammer etc ... but the problem lies in the type and usage of the algorithm ... some languages are easier to learn ... we have to drop the idea of converting(into classes) and processing(linking them together) to processing of raw data into an encoded form ... our current system of language processing adds all kinds of noise to the stored data ... prone to degradation without any parity or error correction built in ... got the point in designing something without the limitations? ...
Now consider this case ... instead of teaching our current language to a newborn ... he was raised by machines ... taught by computers ... in the place of our primitive language he begins to see, hear, touch and taste the world in bits and bytes ... and since our language consists of a base 26 system ... he mayb be able to better manipulate and store the data he captured ... and in the case of output ... with a string 9 encoded sounds he will be able to communicate a lot more than a simple word like "PARACHUTE" can convey ... to be exact he may be able to transmit megabytes of data ... consider encoding a memory the scenes and the sound which you have experienced ... imagine tranfering them without any loss of quality in the exact way you have experienced it ... now you got the point? ... its like a comparison between analog and digital transmission ...
Its high time we changed our language to a more superior one ... to a digital equivalent ... in which there will be no loss during the storage and transmission of our priceless memories ... efficiency in storage and communication are also plus points ... Lets hope for a better tomorrow ...
Mark my words ... we will be over run by machines not only in speed ... in intelligence also .. if we didnt realise where our mistakes are ... find a better system to communicate or we are lost ... if we ever survive you can be sure we will be communicating in clicks :D ... look at evolution ... lesser intelligent of the species cant speak using complex sound patterns ... as species evolved and as their intelligence level increased they could distinguish sounds and could count ... higher IQ levels could count more ... if a crow can count only upto 4, an ape can count upto mayb ten or more ... a human could count thousands and could understand mega, tera, peta, exa, etc ... among the humans themselves some people with lesser IQ cant manipulate numbers ... number system is a type of language ... Im sure in the future we will be seeing, hearing, touching, talking and recollecting things in numbers ... Or a better alternative a better language ...
Problem ... but there is a danger .. the danger is in losing our power of imagination ... or mayb creativity ... the noise and insecurity of our stored data or input and the output makes us so unique and creative ... it may be lost forever ... we may become a society governed only by the perfect logic and perfect laws of a numeric system ... movies, music, entertainment, celebrating a birthday or even playing with a balloon may seem pointless in such a case ... such a case may exist(A highly developed civilisation of Aliens) ... Now im stepping into another territory ... Ok more about that in a future post ;)
I dont know how, when or what ... but im sure there must be some better alternatives out there ... which our primitive intelligence level could not comprehend ...
"It is yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value" - Arthur C Clarke
tc byee
--
love
bp
People die younger.. because god loves them so much..
I am still on earth.. because there's a goddess here who loves me
posted by bp | 9/14/2006 02:04:00 AM
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stupid i should say
why do u want to increase our computing power.
We have invented super computers and all rt?
let them do the computing for us.
I remember a story of a yogi who walked on water and when asked about it he said he did penance for some 10000 years without eating anything to learn the same.
But what is the advantage of it??? He could have paid 50 paise to the ferryman and crossed the river.
What I am telling is the means of faster computing and faster communication is already invented. The internet communicates basically using bits only rt. So the things what u r speaking about is already in place, though in a form not directly usable by humans.
And there is one thing which the languages u speak about cannot achieve: ie we will miss the beauty of literature and things like that.
I remember reading the story of "Kallan Pavitran" which is actually a movie by Padmarajan
The story is actually four lines
There was a Thief.
His name was Pavitran.
He had a wife and a "set up".
He got a treasure when he went to a rich man's house for his daily business.
This will probably be a byte of data in the languages u spek about.
And if possible read the Script or watch the movie. You will understand the strength of our language.
My post is self explanatory ... i said in the far future cinema and all forms of entertainment will seem to be a wastage of time and resources ... and i talked about how the beauty of our language will be lost if we decided to go by the strict rules of zeroes and ones
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