Michael Fogleman

1) Language is one attempt at creating a tool to convey ideas- in many ways it is our best attempt, although music and painting and other arts can often convey an idea in ways that words cannot.

2) Human ideas are composed not only the facts or conclusions of their originators, but also their memories and emotions.

3) Language as we know it is only able to convey an imitation of the original idea to its receiver. During the reception of ideas, receivers add a layer of subjectivity to their own ideas, memories and emotions.

4) Words of any language are useful (and often beautiful) imitations of the perfect language.

5) The perfect language would convey not only the original idea in fact and conclusion, but also the relevant memories and emotions of the originators. Furthermore, it would allow the receiver to receive not only the parts and whole of the idea, but to allow for the same layer of subjectivity as well as interaction and synthesis. There must be clear boundaries between these layers in the receiver’s mind.

6) The perfect language will be found to be made not of words, but of pure, undiluted ideas; therefore it will be less of a language and more of a method.

7) This method for recording, transferring and receiving ideas in a perfect way will be either mechanical or divine.