An assessment of the Unicode standard

r rt8396 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 12:13:31 EDT 2009


On Sep 14, 6:00 am, Robin Becker <ro... at reportlab.com> wrote:
(snip)
> well allegedly, "the medium is the message" so we also need to take account of
> language in addition to the meaning of communications. I don't believe all
> languages are equivalent in the meanings that they can encode or convey. Our
> mathematics is heavily biassed towards continuous differential systems and as a
> result we end up with many physical theories that have smooth equilibrium
> descriptions, we may literally be unable to get at other theories of the
> physical world because our languages fall short.
> --
> Robin Becker

Intelligence does not depend on outside resources (languages),
intelligence begets new intelligent resources!



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