CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Zoosemiotics, Animal Communication, Mathematical Logic
21 Oct 2018
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: a set of symbols that can be arranged in certain ways. : a complex code by which agents can communicate. We say complex b/c we don"t want to include animal communication (bird. : created by culture of humans (includes sign language) : artificial language for communication with computers, also called zoosemiotics . Works through gesture, expression, gaze following, vocalisation, olfactory communication, and electric, colouration. Function : dominance, courtship, ownership, food alert, alarm, metacommuncation. Computer language a human writes code which the computer reads, it follows the human"s instructions. Human language it has a structure, but that structure is implicit. We all know how to do it, but we don"t know how we do it, so we have to study it like any other phenomenon. Our knowledge of how to speak is implicit, not explicit. Language is a brain interface like a computer programming language, natural languages allow interfacing between what might be two very different brains.
