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You're just describing information theory. Every message is contextualized within the codebooks used to encode/decode it. Sometimes we call that codebook "langu
by uoaei 4y ago
You're just describing information theory. Every message is contextualized within the codebooks used to encode/decode it. Sometimes we call that codebook "language", sometimes it uses another representation.
- vimax 4y agoYes, we should develop a new theory of language based on an information theory approach rather than a discrete symbol approach, or maybe something involving both. But you can’t say information theory as it stands gives us a completely satisfactory model of human language. Something will need to be built on top of it.