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📣 unsui

Has anyone successfully POC-ed a math-based alien communications primer?


A common-ish trope in sci-fi movies/books is the bootstrapping of communication between alien beings using a sort of mathematics-based "primer", whereby atomic mathematical assertions (such as demonstrating truth and falsity), etc are used to "build up" a language for cross-alien being communications.

In these stories, it's taken for granted that doing this can indeed bootstrap language.

That said, has anyone actually developed such a proof-of-concept for actually bootstrapping a language based on atomic mathematical principles, or is this simply left as an exercise-to-the-readers'-imagination?


  👤 pvg Accepted Answer ✓
Not strictly mathematical stuff but the wikipedia page has references to a whole pile of the more serious ponderings on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_language

👤 compressedgas
Hans Freudenthal's Lincos (1960) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_language