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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Language as Technology: A Phenomenological Study
Message-ID: <1992Mar27.184548.14646@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 92 18:45:48 GMT
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In article <1992Mar27.130652.23929@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas) writes:
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>Body movements form a language too, with which one can express pain, fear, 
>love or whatever.

 Although we use the term "body language" for this, most people do not consider
it to be a real language.  But if you want to consider it a language, I will
insist that hormonal signals between organs in the body also constitute
language.

>How do you understand if a dog tells you something? Do dogs have poor language?

 I don't claim to be an expert on dogs.  They obviously can communicate with
one another with some types of body language, olfactory signals, etc.  I am
not aware of any evidence of a more substantial language.

>If I understand correct your definition of analog/digital language,
>I can assume that telepathy is for you an analog language.
>Why is this form of language dissantvantageus?

  Since there is no evidence supporting the existence of telepathy, you
can call it digital or not as you see fit.  Such statements about something
non-existent are meaningless.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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