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In the history of the world, the phenomenon of writing arises when the spoken form reaches such prestige that it needs to take a physical form. Its function is the perpetuity of a message over time. | In the history of the world, the phenomenon of writing arises when the spoken form reaches such prestige that it needs to take a physical form. Its function is the perpetuity of a message over time. | ||
A writing system is a type of symbolic system, used to express elements or expressible statements. All writing systems known in the world, have been and are developed by humans as from their needs. | A writing system is a type of symbolic system, used to express elements or expressible statements. All writing systems known in the world, have been and are developed by humans as from their needs. But what happens if human facilitates this system to other species? | ||
According to science, there's no written, or carved symbols or anything that any non-human species has developed as a tool for communication. | According to science, there's no written, or carved symbols or anything that any non-human species has developed as a tool for communication. But, animals have a number of in-born qualities they use to signal their feelings, but these are not like the formed words we see in the human language. Countless species like bears, dogs, many insects, snakes, and cats do use chemical markings and pheromones for certain purposes. Some animals leave detailed messages for members of their own (and in some cases other) species by marking an object or the ground with a bodily excretion. | ||
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The has been scientific intentions to teach animals the human lenguaje. One of the most contested examples is Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee named after noted linguist Noam Chomsky, who was taught over 100 signs in sign language in the '70s. Turning hand gestures into meaning certainly displays arbitrariness. But Herbert Terrace, the psychology that led the study doubted that Nim had really learned a language. He noted that Nim very rarely signed spontaneously; instead, he would react to signs his teacher was making. | |||
But what about writing lenguaje? What happens if human facilitates this system to other species, or some king of symbolic system? How does it look, how would that work? | |||
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