cladking
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Zipf's law is supposed to apply to every single thing homo sapiens do!!! The fact that it doesn't apply to the authors of the PT shows simply we are not the same species as the pyramid builders or cavemen. It shows in concrete terms ancient reality was distinct from our reality because they didn't think like us. There was only a single way to think rather than eight billion ways to think.
In a nutshell it's really pretty simple. Ancient Language was a manifestation of the same logic that underlies all of reality. It is the wiring of the human brain formed in utero expressed as language which is spoken and heard. As such it is perfectly logical and could form the basis of primitive science. It was manipulated largely by the sole natural speech center known as the "wernicke's area". There was no translation necessary to the rest of the brain because almost the entire brain operated digitally and "spoke the same language". There are a few analog brain cells in the cerebral cortex but their function, like all of the brain, is unknown. Bear in mind science doesn't even have a working definition for "consciousness" much less any understanding of what causes it or how it affects the real world or is affected by it. This being said all other brain cells have one mode of operation and two settings; On or off. It is binary and ancient thinking was just as binary as the Ancient Language in which they communicated.
AL failed because it became overly complex but over the centuries in which it failed pidgin languages arose to replace it. Each pidgin language speaker had to convert a small part at the back of the frontal lobe into a translator to change the digital signal from the wernickes area to the now analog higher brain functions. Higher brain functions were simply overridden by a new operating system that was located in this translator; the broccas area. We think analog SO we perceive reality as analog and define reality and axioms in analog terms. We are analog humans. Everything we say, hear, read, write, compose, or DO is analog and driven by the human operating program. The distribution of the words we write is simply an artefact of the operation of this "translator".
I believe with sufficient data we'd find the Zipf's Law isn't really curved so much as it is really composed of three separate lines with blurred edges. The "common" words are operational words that drive sentence structure. The lower line is largely nouns and common abstractions. The center line has many words with multiple meanings and many of them abstractions. It was the lack of abstraction that originally alerted me to the fact that AL does not obey Zipf's Law. It is these middle words that vary most between authors and the lower ones that vary by subject. There is less variation in the upper line as they simply are necessary to tie words together. While words in AL were tied differently they still had to be arranged in sentences which then and now define a complete thought.
The lower line is very straight in AL because there are almost no words. There are no words for "thought" or "belief". There are no reductionistic words or taxonomies and no abstractions. On any subject the same words are used except for the least common words and the least common words are rarely translatable. . This is why all the writing looks "religious" and "superstitious".
Ancient people anthropomorphized reality and experienced it in these terms. Our experience is analog and Zipf's Law is imposition of our operating system on our perception and experience of reality.
Re: Why Ancient Language Does Not Obey Zipf's Law - Graham Hancock Official Website
[linguapath.com]
"At the same time, the middle segment is context-dependent. Words that form this part of Zipf’s curve tend to change depending on the text or the topic of conversation. Words like “scuba”, “dive” or “buoyancy” can reveal being surprisingly frequent if you’re reading PADI Divemaster manual. But not so in a book about finance, for example."
That these middle words are context dependent is exactly why they don't show up; why the language breaks Zipf's Law and how I knew that. There are no context dependent words in Ancient Language. How many times have I said "you can't parse AL"? It can't be parsed because no words are context dependent therefore it breaks Zipf's Law.
Even the representations of nature called "scribbles" found in the caves breaks Zipf's Law!!! Since the words that tie them together aren't recorded the upper line is missing but the lower line is nice and straight just like any language that can't be parsed.
Funny how all the evidence supports my theories!
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Wiki says:
"Although Zipf's Law holds for all languages, even non-natural ones like Esperanto,[16] the reason is still not well understood.[17]"
Of course the reason is not understood. Without even a working definition of "consciousness" or a framework for understanding the cause of "thought" how could we possibly know that it is an artefact of what makes us analog humans or homo omnisciencis?