Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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The Concept of Generic Principles in the Animal Kingdom
So, the initial idea that there are just few elements and we can construct open ended outputs out of that a very computational resource which seems to be available across many domains. The simplest possible proposal is to think of one principle governing all those generative devices that we want to include under the human mind. Look, there's must be some saltation. Let's keep it to one. So that's the argument for a single principle, which is saltation available to the human beings, when how in which form we don't know. That links up immediately with the third and the fourth chapter, the fifth chapter. I'm putting it together. Very, very nice overview of the chapter. So
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