A conversation with Noam Chomsky: Linguistics, SETI, Cognitive Science, & Artificial Intelligence (#059)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Is There a Way to Communicate?
Language is based on the most elementary computational device, namely minary set formation. From that you can construct infinitely many structures and so on. Sensory moter system was in place hundreds of thousand millions of years before language emerged. A mormenskyfo bou did some experiments in which he just took the simplest touring machines,. fewest states and symbols, and asked what happens? He just let em run wild. And they all had the successor function. Soand then he concludes, well, suppose evolution is getting to the point where it's developing systems that have some of the capacities of toring machines - maybe i' give you language. Thats a point, there's possible conver
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