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Information theory can discriminate between noise and language, (http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/DolphinLang.php http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/Dolphin
by drhodes 13y ago
Information theory can discriminate between noise and language, (http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/DolphinLang.php http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/DolphinLang.php), Zipf's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law),
- phreeza 13y agoOnce you start applying compression to your signals, as we do with many of our radio signals nowadays, that possibility goes away.
- Balgair 13y agoWhy so? The compression should..... wait, yes, yes it will go away. And their 'signal' may be compressed naturally, much as we say 1984 as 'nineteen eighty four' but in Spanish they say 'mil novecientos ochenta y curato' (thousand nine hundred eighty and four). Not a great example but I think it fits. Apply this over thousands of years with creatures that have hydraulic pumps not muscles (or something) and you get the idea.
- Balgair 13y agoYou assume that they have a language to begin with. Also, from a broad and very misunderstood interpretation of Godel's Theorem, their language may never be understandable by our minds. Thank you for the link though! Applying stats to language is always awesome!