Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
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Symbolic Representation of Language
In one sense, you can think about a sentence as a kind of picture in which the relationships between the words are only related to each other. So we build up this representational system for a very good reason because if the only way you can refer to things or share information about things is by having signed vehicles that are either like what they represent or connected directly with what they represent. But when I'm learning language, I'm learning it by being correlated. I use the same sound. Well, it turns out that say, Gava guy again and again and again, basically shares a common form. The sounds are now correlated. That eventually when we really represent the words symbolically, they
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