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I feel like there's quite a lot scope for engineering the levels of intelligence within a given population. To my knowledge, most languages spoken throughout th
by maestrokuro 7y ago
I feel like there's quite a lot scope for engineering the levels of intelligence within a given population.
To my knowledge, most languages spoken throughout the world reached their current forms naturally, without any kind of deliberate influence by their speakers. What if, however, a language was actively designed to be as information dense as possible? What effect would it have on the average intelligence of a population in which said language was gradually introduced to the point where children were raised speaking it?
- justinclift 7y ago> What if, however, a language was actively designed to be as information dense as possible? Perhaps sound wouldn't be the right medium to carry it? Or alternatively, perhaps only those with <various> enhancements could transmit/receive it?
- mood_lines 7y agoThe population would likely speak it slower to compensate. Information density and speech rate are inversely correlated, with an average information rate around 39 bits/second. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594