Recently, more and more people are worried about the
artificial intelligent will overtake the human’s wisdom. All topic will focus
on one issue, how to match the speed of these two operation. For computer, we
know how to calculate its speed, but for human’s mind no one has ever thought
about it. Now let me show you my method. It may need some revise and
supplementary I hope you may help me. I hope it will lead to a deeper
discussion, not just some emotional words.
Suppose
there is a spoken language, it just have two sounds (phones not syllables we
may regard syllable as combination of sounds) A and B, we know, it can express
this world as well as any language (similar the 0, 1 language). Yet, its
expressing speed is too slow. For instance Tom uses this AB language, Jack uses
a natural language with 400 sounds, supposing there are only 400 things that
required to be named, then sometimes, Tom has to use 9 sounds (as ABBABBAAB) to
express one thing, while Jack use 1 sound to express the same thing.
Since
each sounds cost the same time, then the difference is during the whole life,
Tom can only enjoy 1/9 of Jack’s information (including speaking and hearing).
Or we may say that the AB language user has to have nine lives to get the
information that a natural language user got in one life.
Yet
in the world, the quantity of sounds in every language is different. So just
counting the number of sounds in each language, we will found the different efficiency of them. In other
word, languages in the world is not equal.
Since
the thinking speed is a sort of ‘speaking in mind’, so the speed of speaking reflects
the speed of thinking, we may roughly calculate the thinking speed in this way,
of course a parameter may be introduced.
This
idea tells us that the development of any language is in fact finding more
distinguishable sounds. Since all language towards this target, we may united
them into one language by good guide, in future.
We
always worried about the fast developing speed of computer, yet no body care
about the speed of human’s mind is developing too.
Exponential function tells us in computer the base
number is settled as 2 (0, 1), so we can only increase the exponent number per
second to accelerate its speed. For human being, every second we can only send 5 to 6 audible sounds,
so the exponent number is settled, the only way to accelerate our communication
speed is increase the base number that is the species of sound. In computer,
every operation means choosing 1 from 2, but in a human language with 400
sounds, every operation is choosing 1 from 400. Comparing the in used sounds for
various language we may get some imagination.
The
ancient Phoenician using 22 sounds, the Japanese using around 100 sounds, the
English using around 400 sounds and Chinese Mandarin using 1186 sounds.
When,
I list this, many people will ask two questions: 1st, how can the Mandarin has
so many sounds? The answer is easy, for it is a tone language, just think about
when you sing a song, you can utter every syllable according eight or sixteen
different music notes that is tone. It also makes phonetic difference in speech.
The 2nd question, is that the Chinese Mandarin has a faster thinking speed than
English? That is not true. Unlike computer, in human’s mind, thinking speed and
memory is a dynamic balance. High speed language can consume some speed to get
larger quantity of memory but low speed language can’t. The Chinese language
has consumed its speed for memory. So, today English using one million words to
express the world yet the Chinese people using three thousand characters to
express the same world.
How
the expressing speed transformed into memory? To answer this question we have
to explain what is sound. Sound is not syllable, a sound makes only one peak in
‘voice memo’ of your mobile. While a syllable may cause more than one peak. Try
the syllable ‘sprint’, it will show three peaks. For English speaker, every
second uttering 5 sounds mean the expressing speed is 400 to the 5 power per
second, it is quite a big figure. Since every language is in taking more
species of sounds gradually, the thinking speed is increased too. Normally, a sound is made by ether a
consonant, a vowel and tone or a vowel and a tone. Any way, it has to have a
vowel and a tone.
Now
we explain how the expressing speed can transform into memory. The example is
the word ‘alto’, in the dictionary we found the annotation is “lowest female
voice”. Then why we don’t use this phrase to stand the meaning of ‘alto’ but to
create a dictionary to explain it? The only reason is that the phrase cost too
much sounds, lo-we-s-t-fe-ma-le-voi-ce, nine sounds while a-l-to cost three
sounds; the gap is six sounds. If in a theatre someone using this meaning 100
times per day, it cost him 600 extra sounds. But in Chinese Mandarin, they did
use the phrase stand this word, for each of the three words of “lowest female
voice”, expressed by one sound as ‘nu gao yin’. In that way the expressing
speed transform into memory. Or we may say, they don’t need to know a word as
‘alto’ but they can express and understand its meaning as well. It similar the
computer transfer a subroutine.
When
human cognize a word, they don’t like computer, that remember it immediately.
People understand a word by meet it repeatedly and getting impression step by
step. Between two times, many things may happen upon this person. That is to
say, the second time meet the same word it will recall him a different feeling
compare with the first time. This phenomenon caused the imagination and
inspiration of human being. This process is unlike to happen in computer. And
until now the computer didn’t have even one word like this in its mind.