Language

described as a 'stasis' between constructive and eliminative reduction. See JOHANSSON, Christer, 1996. Construction as Reduction. Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics Working Papers. 1996. Vol. 45, p. 79–92. pdf Reduction of Possibilities

Some notes about language and computing:

YOUTUBE Rk76BurH384 Gerald Jay Sussman: We Really Don't Know How to Compute! Presented at Strange Loop 2011. Worked with Richard Stallman on Truth Maintenance Systems.

Here we start to explore data modelling in the context of evolutionary considerations.

YOUTUBE a4CtqYxeUV0 Lost in Translation

Lars Rönnbäck, Syntax, context and evaluation in data modelling - youtube

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That the differences of organic and Socio-Cultural Evolution have been realized is due to a certain evolutionary achievement: language. Therefore, first of all we have to be interested in the evolutionary functions of language in the conceptual context of Variation, Selection, and Stabilization. The evolution of language itself (about which almost nothing is known) serves us only as a starting point.

Prelinguistically cohabiting populations already know rudimentary forms of meaning, namely contextual reference of selections, which can be immunized to some extent against changes (for example, against changes in the weather). They know individual learning. They also know signal exchange, by which they mutually influence selections. These performances are combined and uniquely enhanced by language. This happens by linking meaning with communicable signs and thus shifting it into the communication process itself. Not only the perceptual data themselves have their immediate sense of reality, but in addition special, namely perceptual data producible for communication purposes - although also perceptual data! - gain a special meaning which is superimposed on the perceptual world and represents it. The sign function is not thereby first constituted - a buffalo can very well be a sign for the fact that more buffaloes are present; but it is generalized and made communicatively practicable also for situations in which neither the thing nor its natural signs occur. The word "buffalo" need not stand next to the buffalo as another […]

LUHMANN, Niklas, 2017. Systemtheorie der Gesellschaft. Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-58705-8, p. 317.