Re: Computer syntax and VSO

En réponse à Samuel Rivier :


>However, what I am proposing here is that in some way
>VSO or SOV sentence structure is "better", in terms of
>mental processing, than SVO, by virtue of the
>idealization that it is relatively unambiguous. Or is
>it facetious of me to compare the human brain with
>computer processing (though keep in mind that neurons
>do transmit in terms of signal/no-signal)?
Actually, the intensity and frequency of the signal also play a strong role 
in the brain (especially due to the fact that most messages are relayed 
through neurotransmitters, i.e. chemicals, with a completely analogic 
response). Cascade effects through massive parallelisation also blur the 
picture (as well as the fact that a single neuron can have thousands and 
thousands of connections, leading to synergy effects - one signal provokes 
one response, another provokes another response, those two together provoke 
a third response which is more than the sum of the two -). And then there's 
the fact that the brain is constantly changing, modifying itself to give 
better response to the stimuli it receives.

I studied neural physiology (I was in a physics and chemistry school, but 
our director was very insisting that we should learn a lot of biology too 
:)) ) and can tell you that the brain doesn't work in binary.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.