The lossy compression of language is different. If language rises from an internal simplified model of reality that all humans share, then it's more like a form of compression based on a shared dictionary of underlying information. For example, when an early human scratched a map on the ground with a stick, the simplistic short hand representation of the local environment could be shared with his fellows because they all had the same wire-frame representation of their local environment in their brains. It's not hard to imagine the sounds and character based languages coming from that internal comic book of reality.
Our brain and our being seem to also have a much more complex connection to reality apart from the wireframe/comic book representation. Our dreams, for example, can seem totally real--full fidelity in all the senses. Similarly, when we're just out in the world, just being, we see things with detail that can't be put into language. For us, those experiences, and that sense of the world can be unique to an individual. Perhaps that's the way all animals experience the world.
So.... what if we flip the relationship of language and try to tie it to that animal mind? Is it even possible? How would that work? I'm trying to come up with a way to do planning and analysis within a natural context.
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