FRAIBERG-LENNEBERG SPEECH

Three fields of scientific inquiry are juxtaposed in the light of a co mmon question. Do there in general exist two kinds of language, one 'p ersonal' and the other 'autistic'? This question goes back to a findin g of Fraiberg and Lenneberg. It appears to be fruitful, (a) in the con text of understanding ape language, (b) in the context of symbolic int eractionism, and (c) in the context of understanding the qualitative b ehavior of coupled autonomous optimizers, that is, a class of artifici al brains.