Human lies and animals lies. About the limits of communication
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- Enrique del Teso Martín (ES) Universidad de Oviedo
Abstract
The wrong extension of the concept of communication to all forms of signaling in nature presents important problems. It damages the theory of communication, because of the attempt to rationalize heterogeneous facts that don’t support unitary treatment as a unitary.
Besides it distorts the studies of the evolution by insinuating nonexistent homologies among the species. The ostensive communication is qualitatively different from any other kind of
signal transmission and it is only possible in human beings. The analysis of lies, in ostensive and non ostensive, humans and animal, signals is a intuitive way to approach this issue. By understanding why only human beings can lie and why only with ostensive signals we’ll show why that is the limit of the communication. We’ll follow the idea of communication of Relevance Theory of Sperber and Wilson and the features of the language studied by S. Balari and G. Lorenzo in Computational Phenotypes.
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