Re: lablang or engelang

On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:22, P. M. Arktayg wrote:
> Wesley Parish ta nugatu-r:
>
> [...]
>
> > You have the languages of Golem IV and Iron Annie in some of Stanislaw
> > Lem's
>
> Golem XIV and Honnest Annie.
>
> > late eighties fiction - _profle_ is a prognosticated rifle; and that's
> > not all - sorry, my copy of "A Perfect Vacuum" is buried somewhere, alas,
> > and I don't remember if I'v got a copy of "Imaginary Magnitude" - it's
> > not in "One Human Minute", I know, because I've just checked it.  But
> > what do you call the language of a self-aware computer/philosopher?
>
> _zerolang_ - an actually used human language
> _metalang 1_, _metalang 2_... - higher level languages, above a zerolang
>
> Golems will speak a metalang 2 or 3.
Thanks heaps.  I'd forgotten most of that.

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