Hi All,
I want to pick on Christophe’s post to make a general plea about FIS posting.
This is not a comment on meaning generation by agents. Christophe wrote:
"Keeping in mind that communications exist only because agents need to manage
meanings for given purposes”.
This seems to imply
Dear Terry and FISers,
It looks indeed reasonable to position the term 'language' as ‘simply referring
to the necessity of a shared medium of communication’. Keeping in mind that
communications exist only because agents need to manage meanings for given
purposes.
And the concept of agent can be
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Hello Terry, Sung, FIS colleagues
There is a notion of “body language”.
Perhaps it might be possible to develop a general theory of language that can
take into account bacteria and dogs (according to Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/dogs-can-tell-when-praise-is-sincere-1.20514) as
well as
