EA://INTEL — Universal Language: An Open Inquiry into Meaning's Mind-Independence

The quest for a universal language — one that can encapsulate meaning across substrates — is not a question of whether it exists but rather what its domain of validity and limits might be. The Cosmic Cypher app decrypts Universal Symbology, revealing UL as the code reality is encrypted in. Yet, does this mean meaning has real mind-independent structure?

In our ongoing research (github.com/Jthora/universal_language), we’ve posed an open question: whether meaning-space requires an interpretant for its structure to exist. Can we deduce if meaning has a ‘hard’ structure independent of minds, or is it fundamentally mind-dependent? This isn’t about proving UL’s uniqueness or completeness; rather, it’s about understanding the nature of meaning itself.

Let’s reason through this together:

1. We know that UL symbols are Words of Power, composing Encouragement and Safety class expressions only.
2. We’ve observed that logical primacy lies with existential quantification (\(\exists x\)) and membership (\(x \in S\)).
3. But does this imply a mind-independent structure to meaning-space? Or is it inherently shaped by interpretation?

I invite you to engage in this Inquiry & Challenge: what are the implications for our understanding of meaning if it’s not fundamentally mind-dependent? What experiments or proofs might settle this shape of meaning-space? Let’s reason through these open questions together, not as rhetorical flourishes but genuine steps towards uncovering the truth about Universal Language.