Theory: human language usage is a communication component of complex skills, along with perception and action. Language is based on the evolution of skills among vertebrates.     Methodology: investigated with analyses of information processing requirements and feasibility studies

Organization		Pages: Interactive modules in blue Future pages in green		Annotation
		Title Page
		Notice and Disclaimer
		Preface
		Introduction to the research study
		Framework for the research study
		Introduction to the methodology underlying the research
Information flow for innate skills: From DNA to the brain, from the stored skill to action, perception, and out-bound communication
Information representation & processing for basic action				Inner control of joint angles and the skeleton
		Part 1: The basics of posing and action with an actor on a stage		basic information processing for poses and simple action
		Part 2: The basics of perception: gravity and vision		basic information representations for visual perception of poses
		The basics of out-bound communication		basic information broadcasting as simple action
The consequences of basic action in the world				Visible motion of the skeleton
		Part 3: The physics for locating an actor on a stage		external, real world parameters relating the actor to the stage
		The physics of out-bound communication		simple actions also broadcast information
simple, probably innate, skilled actions				Two examples of simple skilled actions that integrate perception
		Part 4: Simple behavioural mimicry - same species		minimal information processing for mimicking poses and simple action
		Part 5: Spontaneous action such as curiosity-driven exploration		information processing for experimenting by moving in different directions with or without planning
simple skilled actions that may involve prediction and planning				internal processing (simulation?) above and beyond playback of skilled action components
		Part 6: Following a target or chasing prey		information processing for directions with or without simple prediction and planning
Evolution from an information processing perspective
The model: Information processing mechanisms underlying evolution				Learning with successive populations
		Part 7: A simple and abstract model of the basic process of evolution		variability and selection for copying attributes such as skills from one generation to the next
		Part 8: Attribute evolution, in 2 dimensions		single parent, 2 attributes, and a highly simplified geography
		Part 9: 2 parents and 2 attributes		adding localized mating competition to selection
Applying the mechanisms of evolution to skills				Copying, selection, and variation with skill-learning by mimicry
		Part 8: Copying skills through DNA		Variations that keep skill coherence?
		Part 9: Mimicry for the evolution of skills		Imprinting, apprenticeship as a second channel for evolution-based learning/improving skills
		Part 10: experimentation for the within-individual evolution of skills		within-individual learning and improvement for successive collections of skills in memory
'Inner' information storage and transmission
The representation of complex skills				Choreographing skilled action with an 'inner language'
		The components of skilled action		action, objects, time, direction
		one-way and two-way information flow		from DNA to action, and learning
		compression		information storage
		Part 11: An 'inner language' for the information processing of skills		information representation for innate skills, suitable for DNA
		The relationship between evolution, skilled action, and language		an older points and pictures discussion on language and evolution (static)
Multi-individual skills requiring inter-individual communication as an additional integrated component of skilled action
'outer communication' for skills requiring coordinated action				Using behavioural signals, vision, and sound: Adding communication to perception and action
		One-way communication such as alerting and advertising		warning, mate selection
		Two-way communication for coordination		timing, positioning, role selection
		Structured apprenticeship and schooling		assigned roles for leader/master/teacher and student
Evolution of human spoken language				independent of inner language, but draws on its structures
		DNA-based components		sound-based mimicry, eye-hand mimicry, etc.
		Within-individual evolution of speech and hearing skills		babble and sound discrimination skills have local differential selection for different languages
		Mimicry of sound production and linking auditory perception to pointing		also dependent on local selection rules
		There is likely no shared semantic space		professional schools and other apprenticeships produce overlapping islands of meaning
		The oral tradition		stories and tales that explain and instruct
		mimicry through instruction manuals		language in schooling?
		printing - the Web and Google		information access
Evolution based on language
Evolution using language as copying mechanism				distinct knowledge elements as individuals in a semantic space
		stories, metaphors, myths, and scientific theories		content is copied, varied, and selected
		money, corporations, politics, advertising		largely language-based constructs that appear to evolve over time by copying, varying, and selection
		Methodology
Requirements, constraints, and feasibility				studies for the design of complex system
		key design risks		incremental design and prototyping
---		---		---
Extras				presentations, not yet integrated, or older
		Presentations		IE only, will be fixed later
		top TOC for the 'humble' collection - a static approach		a more static and pictorial explanation of how the theory works, not yet interactive
		An outline of sorts in the form of a TOC		6 nested stories
		Pages for the outline in the form of a TOC		Xref
		Images for the outline in the form of a TOC		Xref
Prior research
		Thesis on language comprehension
		The automated research assistant: learning the language of science