If a lion could speak, I wanna be the person who'd understand them.

Which is why I am always on the look-out for studies on urine signaling behavior in felinidae. I think that might be a way they speak.

Seriously though, If you wanna speak cat someday to spite wittgenstein, ya'll gotta be up on that cat piss.

"Spontaneous discrimination of urine odours in wild African lions, Panthera leo" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347217300404

Now... ask me why I have bee semen on google alert. 🐝

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"Isaac is not a genius. He can not write his own name, dress himself, read or write or use cutlery. He requires round-the-clock care. He can not speak one word. He is severely autistic, yet he has found a way to connect with others that is as unique and special as he is."
https://aplus.com/a/google-street-view-helps-non-verbal-autistic-boy

I literally don't have words to describe this better. So here's a screenshot of my locked twitter.

I have a ‘google street view’ of all my meaningful tweets and content I’ve written on birdsite.

Sometimes when I struggle to find words, I use my memory for spatial information to ‘retrace my steps’ and find the right symbolism to communicate my intent. Sometimes its not the cleanest, and it can be noisy, but it works for me.

I realized recently that I also remember people this way. I can go to their profile and refamiliarize myself with them. It creates a sense of space.

Language maps?

Language maps.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ajit_narayanan_a_word_game_to_communicate_in_any_language

People maps?
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/11/1812/2514636

I need better tools.

A shunting yard style transformation of a particular langauge representation into an abstract syntax tree... or rather a semantic mesh.

Did you know there is a 'programming language' who's linguistic representation can be dynamically changed at run-time and supports scratch? I know it exists, I don't know what it is called.

See James Owen Ryan's thesis (not yet published?) and intrinsic algorithm's (Dave Mark's) story blocks.

Story Maps. Causal Maps. Inference Maps.

Templates & Metanarrative

Language is a linear compression format that lazily describes implicit causal association maps via a system of gossiped meta-narrative templates.

These templates are biased by our attention and awareness of another's attention. Adaptive to the needs at hand. These can be artifacts such as words, but also phrases and idioms which have been previously imbued with meaning.

The communication via language has error checking features that are adaptive to the various channels by which information is conveyed. It is constantly being honed thru a series of internal compression systems that mirror how ant forage and compress their maps by operating on it.

This compression often happens during sleep and has been investigated partially thru Hebbian Learning theory, and is inherently Bayesian because it is fundamentally a signal processing system trying to process itself.

Dreams are your brains adversarial networks running while the main mode of movement is shutdown, used to simplify the networks of thought based on a sort of simulation of experiences. Its necessarily done in offline mode because thoughts are not always relevant at the moment.

While the brain dreams the narrative self is quiet and 'the elephant in the brain' dances.

@ultimape (note to self: you already have a thread on this that directly references ribbonfarm pieces. Refer "Sisyphus' masks" and the futility of maps as ~storied lossy compression networks. )

The anxiety driven need to maintain our maps. Maps made so we can point at where it hurts, where the dragons live, and where we might want travel to fulfill our needs.

"...information space is constantly changing. Our information world is changing much faster than that of our ancestors. In navigating this nauseating landscape, we need fixed points that do not exist."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/10/01/meaning-and-pointing/

Compressing maps to share them with friends at increasingly distant locations. Connection Maps.

"Language itself acts as a store of information, shared among minds, and language tends toward compression. As stories and concepts are shared, they become more compressed, until they reach the final stage: a metonym, a single word that represents a story or concept that conversation partners are expected to understand. A word is the ultimate tl:dr for human communication."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/03/cartographic-compression/

Even "mapping" the mess to better understand how to avoid it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhSNsBs2Y0

"In the abstract language of information theory, the kind of disorder called entropy is the lack of structure or compressibility in data. Consider a rectangular field of pixels which can be either black or white. A field of pure black or pure white has maximum order in the sense of Shannon entropy: you hardly need any bits to explain how to recreate the image. This is not a mess."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/05/tendrils-of-mess-in-our-brains/

We share entire life templates as maps. And we love reading about it as much as we love sharing.

Finding others who share the same map means finding potential allies for the journey.

"We are also illegible to each other. Unlike nomads from previous ages, who wandered in groups within which individuals at least enjoyed mutual legibility, we seem to wander through life as largely solitary creatures. Our scripts and situations are mostly incomprehensible to others."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-person/

Meta-mapping: "The Stuff of Thought" to the thoughts on stuff. Language is embued with meaning. And stuff?

"Even if you do try hard to become an expert, your stuff will remain a somewhat illegible machine, because it was not designed top-down. It was designed as a series of hacks and modifications to an inherited lifestyle, which itself has been evolving for many generations. Understanding it completely would be like understanding the lifestyles of all your ancestors."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/16/the-las-vegas-rules-ii-stuff-science/

@ultimape have you looked at TheBrain app?

@BillSeitz it looked alright, but not something I'd be willing to spend time putting content into since it wasn't open source. I want something I can hack on to customize. Tho it was one of the few I found that had actual concept mapping support (graph data structure).

I found the interface/embeding to not be rich enough. I also need a way to allow other people's maps to intemingle as layers. a sort of bohm dialogue.

I own wovensoup.com and hope to make my own one day using open protocols.

@ultimape Yeah, I played with some D3.js stuff to generate a force-directed graph from my WikiLog pages. But it was never very good, and totally broke at some point, and I've never wanted to be a JS dev enough to get back into it... (though the graph-list bits still work) http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiGraph

@ultimape when i am going to meet up with someone i end up wishing they had a blog or something. i want to be able to revise my knowledge that i have on other people, it's hard to keep track of this stuff