Bridges between us. Shorter than language?
Every word we say is an estimation of some individual piece of thought. Is also an estimation of how we individually perceive a context. The more abstract the word is, the bigger the error.
Being an individual process, the receiver will “decode” its meaning based on its individual pattern, adding another approximation to the initial one.
Apparently we use on average of more than 15,000 per day so if you want to limit those multiplied errors, you need to process wisely and pray for understanding. And we spend most of our times interacting with spoken words.
And the more complex the mind is, the harder is to make the first step and express your universe inside to you. Let alone pass it to other.
I noticed this struggle on two persons: Elon Musk and Jaqueline, my daughter 9 years old.
They both experience difficulties when trying to formulate some sentences. Same problem. There is an internal race between own’s capacity to perceive the cloudy data invading yourself, and own’s capacity to express it…
The gap created is just getting bigger and no one is “in charge” to create and spread new words to cover most of our informational bubbles at the pace of their polarisation.
When complex minds project information, the hardest task is to compress a cloud of information into a very rarefied dotted line, passing through all the important galaxies you want to refer to.
The dots are the words.
Machines are communicating the same way but the lines are light speed drawn and spheres are AI envisioned.
Humans shaped and were shaped by their tools throughout the history, like a mirror of reality.
As our nervous system evolves, expect to see changes in how people communicate over the next 50 years, similar in impact to the adoption of language, only this time will happen much faster.
And is not about the speed, to read or watch movies 3x faster on Kindle/TED; these are Ford’s faster horses.
It is about a new way to communicate between people in the coming decades, similar in magnitude to the appearance of language itself.
