High Band, Transparent Language
Preambul
There are different opinions about the starting point of language. It either occurred almost suddenly about 50–100k years ago (Chomsky) or slowly evolved from 2M years ago along Homo Erectus (Daniel Everett). In both cases we observe an evolution from simple structures to more complex ones. And now back to simple ones: the Emojis.
According to linguists, anthropologists and passionate people about the subject, presumably there were some inflection points:
- The mind of the child is preprogrammed to pick up from the surrounding sounds (words) just the ones fitting an unknown, internal structure, maybe generative and recursive. Compilable in terms of machines as opposed to impossible languages which would be treated as not compilable. The sounds not fitting this structure are discarded by the brain and treated as noise. The non-linear structure of this "possible language" is not known. Could be arborescent (Noam Chomsky) or rhizomatic (Gilles Deleuze) or else.
- Our highest band information channel is not speech: it is vision, sound and touch.
Based on the above ideas we formulate the following hypothesis.
The Hypothesis
We propose to develop a new method to train children into acquiring a new type of language using deep signals received via global accessible biometrics such as heart language as a primary, raw source of individually emergent biodata. There is a level of variability and diversity in this signal which in theory should already incorporate "the fractal rules" we use for speech, as the body acts holistic and leaves signatures in all places at once. The fidelity of this signal may not be fit today but we are planting the seeds for a path which assumes the fidelity will improve in time.
We cannot pick up and decode these fractal/generative rules because our "senses" get atrophied in time, while the spoken sense overwrites them. With the use of technology, maybe we can translate the heart signal into different matrices of primal symbols/patterns which can group naturally in generative ways in more complex compositions. As sounds are coupling in letters and then words and then phrases.
With the use of data processing and generative art, these patterns can be translated real time into unique flows of visual, sound or haptic symbols and matrices.
Not all the readings (maybe most) will be at the beginning and most will be treated as "noise" as we cannot identify the patterns. Here is an example of how different patterns are picked up by infants. This is a long term study run by Patricia Kuhl, Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington.
A New Kind of Communication
Our hypothesis is that people, helped by technology, can activate this deep biological skill to learn to decode this type of symbolic flow. Maybe not replacing the spoken language but creating a hybrid deeper, more fundamental, authentic and efficient layer of communion. As stone writing and later books helped us to further generate spoken language, we hypothesize that we can create a parallel branch in which to build communication on top of a richer and more high-bandwidth communication channel.
In the upcoming world, physical and digital interactions will take place in a hybrid, digital aided environment. We can imagine heart driven flows of visuals/sounds/haptics which are easily shared between people while in communication (as background auras or imprinted in fashion as retro-futuristic profile pictures) and deeply and authentically understood with virtually zero losses of communication.
By hearing, seeing or feeling the augmented heart of someone they will deeply understand what is happening inside the other person's body and mind and context while also transmitting what they feel. Instantaneously and without losses or misinterpretations of communication. Something maybe similar to ants' pheromone dialog.
This could deepen the dialogue and can be complemented with spoken language with words fitting the deep physiological state.
And who knows? Maybe this mix of biosemiotics meets multi-sensorial, generative art can lead to transfer information interspecies.
This exploration into transparent communication aligns with Adiem's mission: leveraging personalized, science-backed rhythms to foster balance and connection.