Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Universal translators are mathematically impossible

When I say "universal", I mean translation to and from any living thing capable of externally expressing its thoughts.


Whatever sound a human or animal makes, it can only be correlated against a very limited set of actions. 

NSA linguist and whistleblower Perry Fellwock said breaking an unknown cipher requires the interception and analysis of about 30,000 encrypted words. The only way to speed that up is if you have something like the Rosetta Stone. In other words, if we had a large enough sample of dog speech and its English translation, we could translate the language of dogs, if they have one. 

Do Venus flytraps have thoughts? Do cockroaches? Maybe. Probably. It is the utmost arrogance for humans to think they are the only living things with intelligence.

There is evidence that plants grow better with certain music even though they don't even have ears. 

Here, because the neural system of a cockroach is so simple, they can be controlled with electronics:


Many parasites control their hosts without electronics:



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