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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
12/31/2016 11:50:09 PM
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Re: Huawei has plans for IOT
faryl,

Even if their senses are roughly the same as ours, suppose that instead of a voicebox, larynx, tongue, and jaw they have appendages they use for complicated sign language that involves motion and being able to change color like an octopus. (There's no reason to suppose one is likelier than the other; our language apparatus is mostly dedicated to communication, so their  "signal-tentacles" can't be). All our text communications -- which was most of our broadcast communication till very recently -- is representations of words. What happens when you try to represent tentacle signals? Much of ASL doesn't parse into words very well (the more fluent ASL people talk about a "hearing accent", meaning communicating in a string of word-analogs rather than a flow of ASL). If there were never any words -- and if people had, say, four or six "hands" that could change color on cue -- would they think a string of any repeated signal was meaningful?

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faryl
faryl
1/10/2017 5:44:28 PM
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Re: Huawei has plans for IOT
Thanks! I *just* finished reading "Thunderstruck" by Erik Larsen (about Marconi & the development of transatlantic wireless communications) and am looking for a new historical novel to read. (I started reading a book about Plum Island, but don't like reading about experiments on animals :-/ )

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faryl
faryl
1/10/2017 5:54:05 PM
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Re: Huawei has plans for IOT
And if they did, would they still want to make contact? ;-)

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