Xenolinguistics
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Thesis: All processes or formalisms that resemble arithmetic are identical to arithmetic,
or else unthinkably complicated and arbitrary.
This is why we can communicate perfectly about numbers. [1]
Xenolinguistics is the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.
[edit] Literature
- ↑ Regis, Edward (1987). Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521348528.
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- Cohen, Jack, Ian Stewart (2002). Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life. Ebury Press. ISBN 0091879272.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Communication with Alien Intelligence by Marvin Minsky (Published in Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence)
- A course on extraterrestrial language at Bowling Green State University
