Extraterrestrial life/Xenolinguistics

Thesis: All processes or formalisms that resemble arithmetic are identical to arithmetic,
or else unthinkably complicated and arbitrary.
This is why we can communicate perfectly about numbers.

Xenolinguistics is the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.

Literature

Cohen, Jack; Ian Stewart (2002). Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life. Ebury Press. ISBN 0091879272. 

See also

• Astrosociobiology
• Topic:Exobiology
• Topic:Post-information society

External links

• Communication with Alien Intelligence by Marvin Minsky (Published in Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence)
• A course on extraterrestrial language at Bowling Green State University