Roger, you express a sadly thin view of human thought and communication.
To counteract this, I recommend the book by Hofstader and Sander
titled "Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel of Thinking".
It's a very large book, but very worth while.
Regards, Tom
On 7/1/2014 5:38 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Inside our brain information is in parse trees:
>
> The parse trees are structured according to a grammar, such as the
> English grammar.
>
> When I want to communicate information to you I linearize the parse tree
> and transmit the linearization (i.e., the sentence) to you. You receive
> the sentence and immediately reconstruct the parse tree and apply
> semantics to the parse tree:
>
> So information is exchanged by linearizing a parse tree, transmitting
> the sentence, and at the receiving end reconstructing the parse tree.
>
> This is true for humans as well as for web services: A web service has
> information in a DOM (parse) tree, it linearizes (serializes) the DOM
> tree into an XML string, transmits the XML string, and the receiving web
> service reconstructs the parse tree and then applies semantics to it:
>
> Neat!
>
> /Roger
>
