Extraterrestrial life/Xenolinguistics
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.
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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.
Literature
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Regis, Edward (1987). Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521348528.
- Cohen, Jack; Ian Stewart (2002). Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life. Ebury Press. ISBN 0091879272.
See also
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Communication with Alien Intelligence by Marvin Minsky (Published in Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence)
- A course on extraterrestrial language at Bowling Green State University