Our hidden languages

Questions about intelligence and meaning are thrown left and right in social media and academic spaces and probably within the inner dialogue of many people.

It is, even after months since I last wrote an article, a topic that defines the pivotal moment we are living. If a faithful ressemblance of our creation can be found in statistical autocomplete within the binary code, what do we make of our previous beliefs around what makes us human?

I mentioned in my previous blog post that probably, the real question now is how to trace meaning in a drastically different reality. Code is reflecting a form of decomposition to us, something like a symbolic death maybe.

But meaning-tracing is probably infinite and therefore the capacity to decode it too. A while ago, I mentioned that we need to rethink ourselves as living cognitive systems and what that means and today, it remains true.

If we start to apprehend the world differently, the landscape shifts, perception changes and reality starts presenting elements that are describable by another layer of our language. In other words, we think about the way we see things, how we relate to them and it allows for new descriptions that have nothing to do with known syntactic structures mastered by LLMs.

In fact, this is part of our daily life already, except we draw ourselves back to the lines of Intelligibility. It is basically thinking about descriptions beyond known linguistic boundaries.

It’s like every individual’s language engine could start and burst in every direction. Pure, raw thought substance. But we decide to call it gibberish because it’s quicker that way.

However, in defense of the boundaries of the world, such thought substance needs to be channeled properly and made comprehensible for other people.

This is the reason why speaking and, especially, writing are more important than ever in today’s world.

LLMs possess endless combinatorial possibilities but they are not intrisically guided by goals, like we are. The fact that we are guided by our survival, our desires and our ideas might be the reason why we generate perspectives that make sense in the real world.

Speaking and writing allow this perspective to be audible and readable and therefore, exist in other people’s heads.

Every perspective is composed by a lived experience that we recognise intuitively, and this is the reason why I believe a new light on our relationship with perception and language is required.

In conclusion, we need to rethink our relationship with language and perception, go deeper in that abstract dimension of our mind and make it intelligible for others. That is the real challenge that no AI should interfere with. A nice way to start is by writing on paper ;)

See you next time,

Javier