Digital evolution of life and language (linguistic anthropology)

1.

Digital Evolution of Life
and Language
(Linguistic Anthropology)
For Students of
Petrozavodsk
State Univ.
13 October 2021
Kumon Tokumaru
Digital Linguist
(Japan)

2.

Mind can be free like wind,
but you have to think unthinkable.
-- Dogen (1200-1253)
What is language?
How we should use it?

3.

Life and Language are Digital
Physical Logical
Evolution
Discrete &
Reactive Signal
Hardware
Software
RNA (AUGC)
Signal
Neural Circuit
Syllables
(Phoneme)
Linear Message
Long-lasting
Recording Signal
mRNA
DNA
(genome)
Sentences
A Character Set
(classics)
Low Noise
Environment
Error Avoidance
Nuclei
Ventricle System,
Libraries
Sound Symbolism
Reproducing
Complexity
degeneracy
Offsprings
LIFE
Meaning of
Concept
Language

4.

From Prokaryote to Mammals
Peri
Birth
Physical
Phenomena
Logical
od
Eukaryote
Nuclei
Nuclear Membrane Post Transcriptional Modulation,
Prokaryot 2BA
Symbiosis
Symbiotic Networks
e
Vertebrate
Multicellular,
Vision, Audition
Sign Reflex
Protozoa 530
CNS+VS
MA
Mammal
Womb
Large Brain
Vocal Communication
Marsupia 66M
A
l
Altricialty
Eusociality
Baboon 130 Anatomically Cave Dwelling
Mod. Human
KA
66K
Linguistic
Phoneme
Infinite Word Signs
Grammar
Analog
Human
(Syllables)
Vowel
A
(Monaural
Audition of MT)
Signs
Environmental
stresses triggered
physical
evolution.
Civilized
A Character Set Sharing beyond time &
Concept
5KA
Oral
Human
space
(Group Logic)
Tradition
Homo Sapiens
Internet
Searches
Forward
Error Correction
Bit
Beneficia 50A Then,
logical evolution
followed
when low
noise
ry
Before
environment was recovered.
Evolution of Life (B=billion M=million years ago)

5.

Noises switch on Physical evolution, then
Silence completes Logical complex one.
Organelles Symbiosis
Post-Transcriptional
Modulation
Multi-cellular Network
Vision, Audition
Sign Reflex
Large Brain
Curiosity & Learning
Vocal Communication
Stresses by
Meteorite
Impacts
Nuclei
Ventricle
Womb
T1 T2

6.

st
1
Stage Phoneme & Grammar
Toba Volcanic Winter (74KA)
• Signal(Phy): Phoneme Sharing(Clicks Imprinted after birth
Laryngeal Descent Vowel Accented Syllables)
An Infinite Number of Unique Word Signs
Low Noise Environment (Village and Town Life in Safety)
• DSP Circuit(Log): Grammatical Processing(Monaural
Audition of Mother Tongue for Sound Vector Analysis of
Grammatical Syllables and Dualistic Integration with
Adjacent Words)
Piraha who live in Amazonian rainforest hear mother tongue Binaurally
and have no grammar. Grammatical processing genes can only expressed
in safe environment without dangerous predators.

7.

nd
2
Stage: A Character Set & Concept
Dynasty was born from conflicts of local feudal lords
• A Character Set (long lasting syllables) enabled sharing of
linguistic information beyond time and space, and serial
development beyond generations. Civilization
Low Noise Environment (Temples・Monasteries)
• Study monks exempted from labor and familial care studied
intensively and became successful in evolution of word logic from
1-to-1 sign reflex to 1-to-ALL group logic Concept
• As Concepts are group, the result of conceptual operation can
also be a new and Complex Concept.

8.

rd
3
Stage Search & Error Correction
Total War of WW-II ignited Information Warfare
• Bits are interactive syllables. Using internet search engines,
historically accumulated linguistic information become accessible
• Contemporary humans acquired Collective Human Intelligence in
the Extended Brain Memory.
Extremely Low Noise Environment ( )
• Sign Reflex and Eusocial Origin of linguistic processing
restricted linguistic humans to identify and correct errors in
linguistic information.
• We have to establish method for Forward Error Correction of
Linguistic Information including our own memories.

9.

Sign Reflex Restrictions
• Language is processed by Sign Reflex circuit in the brain.
• SR is (1) involuntary, (2) memory based, (3) reflexive system.
• Once you are contaminated by errors, you would judge right
thing wrong, wrong information right.
• Solutions to SR restrictions should be slow and repetitive
reading in very low noise environment.

10.

Eusocial Restrictions
• Phoneme sharing is originated in kinship and xenophobia of
eusocial animals.
• The Law of Community is prioritized before the truth or
justice. (i.e. seniority system)
• False information is distributed to confuse outsiders.
• Solutions are simple:
(1) Make distance from the center of power.
(2) Compulsory acceptance test for all incoming
information.
(3) Be skeptical about information from abroad.

11.

Human Linguistic Evolution is a part of the
Natural Evolutions of Living Creatures.

12.

Low Noise Environment & Time
enhance Intellectual Evolution
Error Correction
Concept
Grammar
Signals
(Logic):
Syllables
(1-to-1)
Text
(1-to-All)
Bits
(Network)

13.

From Prokaryote to Homo Sapiens
Peri
od
Prokaryot 2BA
e
Protozoa 530
MA
Marsupia 66M
A
l
Baboon 130
KA
66K
Analog
A
Signs
OralTrad 5KA
ition
Beneficia 50A
ry
Before
Birth of
Eukaryote
Vertebrate
Mammal
Anatomically
Mod. Human
Linguistic
Human
Civilized
Human
Homo
Sapiens
Physical
Acquisition
Nuclei
Symbiosis
Multicellular,
CNS+VS
Womb
Physical
Phenomena
Nuclear Membrane
Logical Evolution
Vision, Audition
Post Transcriptional
Modulation
Sign Reflex
Large Brain
Vocal Communication
Cave Dwelling
Altricialty
Phoneme
(Syllables)
A Character
Set
Electronic Bit
Infinite Word Signs
Vowel
Sharing beyond time &
space
Internet Searches
Eusociality
(Imprinting of Kinship sign)
Grammar
(Monaural Audition of MT)
Concept
(Group Logic)
Forward Error Correction
Evolution of Life (B=billion M=million, K=thousand years ago)

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Conclusion
To complete linguistic evolution
• Linguistic humans were born in natural evolutions. We
are life-long studying apes. Study is our energy source
of life. It is time to complete logical evolution at the 2nd
and 3rd stage.
• We have to rectify words, and be responsible for them.
We must correct any errors in linguistic information and
in our consciousness.
• To overcome complexity of contemporary sciences, we
should move to low noise environment and implement
FEC in studying.
• Some day, Concept and FEC will be coded in our
genome.

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Thank you for your attention.
Now it is time for discussion..