Thursday, March 3, 2011

New Scientific language ?

I have been reading quite a lot of journal papers now a days, and I seem to waste most of my time in reading,and understanding what the author is trying to say. Once you understand it, the concept seems very simple. So simple that you are amazed at the time you wasted in trying to figure it out.

I believe this happens due to lack of current languages to "crisply" describe an idea. Languages that describe ideas are either way to bloated (background,premises etc,and finally the new concept), or way to short to intuitively understand stuff (eg. mathematical equations that describe principle. it could be as simple as ohms law , or as complicated as eg. maxwell's equations).


When I try to compare this with what happens in computers, it essentially reminds me of i/o transfer rates. Far far ago, there was a processor 8088 which had 16bit processor but 8bit data bus.
As a result of this, its processing speed would be handicapped by the transfer rate.


Human brain is a much more complicated structure,from my personal experiences, when this happens, ie. theres not enough input from matter at hand to brain, brain tends to occupy itself in other thoughts, which then will slowly kill your original thought, because its the new thought is already in process and does not need any new input from outside world.

If only there werent so many layers on human communication, we could have achieved some sort of efficiency in reading stuff.

I once had read that our ancestors separated from our primordial ape-races due to a mutated gene that caused the muscles of jaw to reduce, giving more space for brain to grow, and this made us capable of producing speech* or a scheme of conveying ideas/events.


Essentially the "overhead" as we call it in computer jargon , is far too much for current languages.

We cannot really distribute 6billion ideas of 6 billion people very quickly unless we try and get some mechanism like this in place.

In other words, we waste most of our capabilities due to a simple limitation that the languages put on us.

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