Representing Processes

Abstract

In this chapter we are concerned with the non-trivial matter of how to incorporate descriptions of sequences of processes without reference to time in lingua cosmica, the particular linguistic system for interstellar message construction proposed and discussed in detail in the present book. The chapter contains an important, fundamental extension of the discourse in the previous chapters in parts I–IV. Groundwork is carried out here for the purpose of interpreting (dynamic) processes of various sorts in the linguistic system. The concept of a process is given a prominent central position. At the basis we find elementary (or atomic, indivisible) processes. These can be combined into sequences of processes or concurrent processes. These are also processes, in fact almost everything is considered to be a process. But not all processes have the same type.