Dr. Vladimir Manakin, dean of the Journalism Department at Zaporozhzhye National University (ZNU) in Ukraine and a Visiting Research Fellow, will present “Communication, Language(s), and Noosphere” at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, in Room 4400 of University Center Building C.
Here is a brief summary of the presentation:
Can we trust the idea of general symmetry between human communication, languages, genetics (DNA) and other synergetic codes of communication? How does this symmetry work? Is it possible through human language(s) to detect unseen intelligence throughout the universe? The answer to this question is “yes,” if we take into consideration Noosphere Theory.
Noosphere (from the Greek νους “nous” — “mind”) can be viewed as the sphere of human intelligence or mind on the planetary level. The Noosphere is the third phase of the Earth development, after such ones as geosphere and biosphere (Vladimir Vernadsky).
Human language(s) is a specific manifestation of noosphere, and a unique phenomenon, which general structure has to reproduce macrocosm and microcosm, all living things on Earth and Space. Human language at the level of noosphere exists as a cognitive-semantic continuum that is dissolved in all languages in the world. According to the theory, noosphere is the source of any sort of intelligent activity, and a latent storage of any kind of information.
As Einstein stated, everything has similarity relation or general symmetry. “All that is below, equates all what is above, and what above, equates all that is below, to complete the miracle of one thing” (The Emerald Book). Thus, the structure of a molecule reflects the structure of the universe, and the structure of a word reflects the general principles of semantic organization, and perhaps communication at the planetary (or noospheric) level.
Thus, diversity of human languages, and probably human communication as well, might be defined as an identity of differences which manifests a general law of nature in terms of the noospheric level of human existence.
Communication Ph.D.‚ students are required to attend colloquia, but all students and faculty are welcome.