The Concept of Universal Language - Zhang

2020

"1. A has a piece of “internal meaning” to share with B.

2. A’s personal computer listens to A.

3. A’s personal computer translates A’s “internal meaning” into computer language.

4. A’s personal computer sends the piece of computer language to B’s personal computer.

5. B’s personal computer receives the piece of computer language.

6. B’s personal computer translates the piece of computer language into a piece of “internal

meaning” that makes sense to B.

7. B experiences A’s 'internal meaning'." (P.37) “Human beings should be freed from repetitive and non-creative works after they have trained their “digital butler” to sufficiently replace them. Their time can then be spent on communicating with other humans. With the possibility of communicating with the universal language, feelings can be conveyed with deeper intersubjective bounds formed. It is an approach to have the computers do what they do best, while allowing the humans to discover more of the uniqueness of being a human.” (P.37)

"Ps. “Repetitive” and “non-creative” in this case, have more strict meanings. Because the ideal “digital butler” learns by observing the master closely, any activity that is observed until the point the “digital butler” have learned to do it by itself shall be considered “repetitive” and “non-creative”. For an extreme example, an artist who has been creating artworks within one consistent style, until his “digital butler” learns his style and can produce artwork of identical artistic quality to the artist’s work, the work of creating such style of artwork shall be considered as “repetitive” and “non-creative”. Thus, this work can be given to the “digital butler” for more productions while the artist can go explore a new style." (P.37)