Eternal Journal

A Better Language

This is inspired from a blog on how the urge to shorten is a human nature, and life becomes overly simplified as a product of more information transfer in a shortened context.

We have evolved. A lot. A thought of ours contains variables, each with their own weight. It has some bias, some loose strings, assumptions and a lot more abstract. When I want to convey this same abstract to another person, there's a bridge of language that I must cross. But that bridge is very thin, it filters out most of my abstracts based on a straight path. I can twist and spread it out a bit, by adding emotions to my voice, the stutters, the depth, the melodious fluency, aggression, anger by varying certain weights down those abstracts. It does the job for the time being. But falls short after a limit. You cannot over pressurize a bridge given given the short amount of throughput it allows. It is destined to collapse after a threshold.

There is a point after which natural languages fall short of conveying the notional and the deep neurotic linkages of what is truly going on in your head. We have words, sentences, grammar to link them all. Yet they fail.
This is a big problem. And for centuries we have relied on gestures, ooga-boogas, languages and sometimes a mixture of all these. A good example can be taken from Arrival movie where the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is deemed into play. This essentially states that the cognition of a speaker is directly related to the structure of the language that they speak. Modern Chinese Mandarin employs 3.03 bits per symbol, compared to alphabetic systems that have ~1.2 bits per symbol of information, nature article.

The point I'm trying to make here, is that there should be a replacement, and if not, an evolutionized version of modern natural languages that humans across the globe speak, a better version of communication be brought into life. A shortened, deeper and efficient language should you choose to call it, be created to capture the abstracts of our mind. Instead of experimenting on that limited width bridge, just address it's width directly. Expand it. And then feed the same complexity onto the machine god that you're desperately trying to create.

Language evolved because we wanted to share what we thought, to others. Our emotions, create a separate world of their own inside our head. The frustration of rejection, bliss of acceptance, peace of love, grief of loss, bittersweetness of events. Everything should be conveyed aptly rather than relying on autoregressive blabber. A better language, that's all.