Textual Reflexions

There are only two kinds of people, those who read A. A. Milne and those who read J. S. Milne, that’s all.

OHC-RM stands for Open Human Communication - Reference Model is my attempt to classify the human communication processes the way the OSI-RM classifies communication between logical machines. Having quite no knowledge of epistemology (at the moment I am writing at least, I don’t exclude the possibility of influencing my thoughts) I should end up with an alternative vision of human knowledge.

As a matter of fact I tend to classify human languages on three levels:

• low level: letters and other forms of communication, like sounds or computer bits, form words. There is a great variety of protocols for this level. We have already oral and written communication, but surely there are more.
• middle level: words are syntactically tied up to form sentences. I think this layer could be splitted into more parts to deal with the complexity of human languages and different grammars.
• high level: there are some processes in our mind that link the sentences with the meaning. This level should be the domain of logic, but there are some other aspects that I am not sure how to classify. There are some sentences that are grammaticaly perfect, but are not used in the human language. To this category belong the sentences generated by literal translation of sentences in other languages.

I sketched up only the main lines of how we could classify human communication by means of logic, algebra or computer science. I hope many more posts will follow and any hint will be welcome.