(1) A programming language that uses symbols, or mnemonics, for expressing operations and operands. All modern programming languages are symbolic languages. (2) A language that manipulates symbols ...

From the earliest human records, angels have been described as mysterious beings who communicate in ways humans often ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...

How does one person actually communicate to another person? In fact all communication follows from shared symbolic codes in the brain. Thoughts are never directly communicated between people. All ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Lucretius distinguishes between animal vocalization (uoces ciere) and human language (res uoce notare) in ways that may be called "semiotic": ...

Gottfried Leibniz — who died 300 years ago this November — worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning human law into an exercise in computation. Of ...

We've had many postings of late on human nature from guest-blogger Tom Clark and from Marcelo, Stu, and me, so I'll go ahead and continue the thread. I'll first consider the concept of a self, then ...