Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:21:29PM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>>En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>>
>>
>>>Apparently only because we don't know how to tell a computer how to be
>>>creative and don't have the power to let it be creative.
>>
>>Because we don't understand ourselves how creativity works. But whatever
>>the reason, my argument still holds.
>
>
> Actually, we do know how creativity works. It takes things in the
> enviroment and puts them together in new and unusual ways. The
> appropriate value functions - judging what's good and what's bad - is
> the hard part. Of course, they're aren't always the easiest for humans
> to do, either.
That sounds like postmodernism.

> People who grow up without language don't develop languages on their
> own. People who grow up without music probably don't develop anything
> that could fairly be described as music, as opposed to random noise.
I seem to remember reading about languages created by abandoned
children. Actually, if you accept that human life does not extend
infinitely into the past, you have to admit that people who grew up
without either must have developed them, as they have to have appeared
for the first time at some point.

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