🐝 Can aliens understand numbers is a fascinating question, but an even more fascinating question is how would two completely foreign cognitive systems bootstrap shared meaning from zero context ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15455913/Scientists-communicate-aliens-secret-language.html #UniversalLanguage

🐝 Universality may require shared physics, shared cognition, and shared incentives, not just shared numbers.

https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524 #UniversalLanguage

Kate and I finally watched Matthew Rankin's Universal Language آواز بوقلمون (2024), a surreal ode to Winnipeg set in an alternate reality 🏙️ 📽️ 🍿

#universallanguage

Aaron Marcus presenting the Charles K. Bliss publications he donated to @letterformarchive in his talk:
Pasigrsphy: Universal Visusl Languages
for the monthly Symbol Group meeting hosted by Sue Perks.

Mastodonians in the meeting: @juligudehus @dnlutz @MoritzBrouhaha @tainome

#VisualLanguage #UniversalLanguage #Pasigraphy #SymbolGroup
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Das Programm des 4. Farsi Film Festivals #enjoy

#SalaamCinema #MohsenMakhmalbaf

#WritingHawa #NajibaNoori

#TheVanishingPoint #BaniKhoshnoudi

#MeMaryamTheChildrenAnd26Others #FarshadHashemi

#1001Frames #MehrnoushAlia

#WinnersFilm #HassanNazer

#UniversalLanguage #MatthewRankin

#WoIstDasHausMeinesFreundes #AbbasKiarostami

#FarsiFilmFestival #Karlsruhe

Tonight I‘ll be watching ‘Universal Language’, a #Canadian #absurdist comedy-drama, co-written and directed by Matthew #Rankin.

The film is set in an alternate reality in which #Persian, rather than English, is the dominant #language of #Canada, although it remains in coexistence with #French.

#UniversalLanguage

https://youtu.be/y-373fptEXI