Tuesday, October 12, 2010
INSEI: Toward a Draft for an Auxiliary Language
INSEI: Toward a Draft for an Auxiliary Language
Insei - From the Japanese meaning meteor; also the holy object in the center of the Kaabe here as with the Christian and Jewish metaphors considered as models of purely physical design form artificial outlines of our notions that relate to speech.
This interlude in discussion with the linguist, Sultan Ratrout, reminded me of one of my old and core interests and had me take a new look at my presumptions in regard to the content as well the evolutionary potential of human communications. No offense to the use of such metaphors as where useful even philosophical enemies have adapted the others outlines. Philosophy as well as language borrows from its cultural divisions and reinterpretation in their own space of the truths and superstitions, a cleansing by science, of what in our early development have forgotten. While the scientific humanism of Interglossa (now glossa) is shown to be a little idealistic and outdated in the face of the political tongues of our day, my question is that in terms of "real character" and any design of a language based on logic and fundamental notions in this age where Leibniz reigns supreme in the ripening of calculators- does any design of language or method of writing really become a bottleneck to social and scientific progress for a culture? Perhaps such a sense of limitations in the middle of great awakening of new knowledge comes from our notions coloring the language rather than the reverse. In terms of physics as information we ask what is the nature of irreducible notions of substance and emotions, of information and meaning, of the abstract and concrete of ideas, the dust and the spirit. Whatever is our spirit or soul, our core of our mind, what is physics and philosophy is colored by our evolving core as much as those notions color the universe we engage and perceive. These if they are to be an idol or object of general worship certainly should be the most general of theories which allows for diversity and adaptation as much as claims of the unity of our species.
However, the project seems to me at my first attempts almost overwhelming difficult even with the complexity of my writing. I cannot therefore assume I am working toward a draft of some such artificial organ of communication and not with the confidence of earlier times constructing a draft itself. Nor am I sure that what we will find will resemble language, even mathematics, in our time. God is still a useful word in any language and one that still seems to be fundamental as much as it seems empty to the human business of day to day commerce. Some may say this way of organizing real character categories is a bottleneck that will fossilize science- yet we may still speak of the philosophic god and remind ourselves that science in its reductionist simplicity is still a philosophy. One that in our day as the philosophic systems of old, religions of the world have to deal with, incorporate or reach a level of human sophistication in dialectics to decisively reject. But it is not in the interest of open acceptance of all inputs of enquiry to debate what is in the core, soul or heart of others, so too what of notions possess them they should not fear if of the psychological reasons shown that such notions are not the less if another does not want the notions to possess them as well. In any case at the very least we will show what philosophers have suspected for awhile- that the idea of an ultimate and even personal God is not yet an issue to be decided by science- especially if when we reach the heart of that city of God the maze makes sense and we return again as the meteor or lightning bolt back to a vague idea of still higher dreams and greater physics of this world.
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Second Part: some first ideas
*a Applying discrete abstract geometrical structures to a positional code of the consonants and vowels. Here we hope to have a shared design of the sub-cell structures as if a rhyme parallelism or that of near or corresponding notions.
Say with a square the point corners p t s k and the edges a e i o then in square space we might have cvcvc as poxet x being the square itself. But this will be closer to our innate sense of language in three and four dimensions.
*b Before arbritary and specific designations of the sounds and symbols (perhaps artistic accentuations) we enclose notions to some degree of reducibility in the native language. [ heart ] in English for example and heart more of a linguistic state or operation, emotional idea on a conceptual concrete outline.
*c The "deconstruction" of language (of course a possibility whenever we react to the foundations, linguistic or not of our notions) tries to desconstruct the context(concepts) as well many irreducible specific words (ideas)- this process can reach a neutral emotional and stable emptiness.
*d There should be an exploration and cataloguing of deeper aspects of words and ideas for our space, time and motion physics grounding of our peception of the world and the words or symbols used to describe this early learning of our environs and language.
*e Within a general context or metaphor over the compass of human genetics and learning, over a more or less continuous evolution, most any theory may be constructed as a language and be developed as useful context if not the details. Also open to various free interpretations of most any fundamental encoded message. But this notion itself is paradoxically a question of a philosophy of context.
*f cvcvc structure of c an v topolotical language models here to be explored as semitic syllabaries. But a word as a context of a closed system may be extended between systems and the assigned sounds and symbols may vary in sets of words that in an algebra of such systems we may have distinct sets freely combine.
*g In our era the notions of "string theory" may be applied as a theory to explore for the ideas of consciousness, the mind, as well these would help the context of understanding the organic genome.
We adapt the interglossa alphabet ptfkslmnr and vowels aeiou for now.
Some general categories considered yester day were: vaguely:
without (here, near, far, furtherest, beyond) within
expand-shrink, explode-implode, move-rest
state of [kran], process of [kris], indefinite spirit of [kra]
everywhere-nowhere, dust-mind(God?) concrete-abstract
evolve-decay, compactify-unfold
belonging to- exclude from
Being and no thing, Emptiness (absolute or flux)
which already are quite an undertaking of a crude first survey of ideas to pin to some abstract or concrete language and compare in detail and context.
I grew tired, I wondered at this imprecise process in language in some present context of our extending the sounds and syllables, and tendency to decline our verbs.
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