Episode 225: Forbidden Modules
Very Bad Wizards
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Is Language the Result of a Dedicated Competitional Process?
People like paul bloom and frank hile believe that infants are born with all sorts of concepts already baked into the brain, into the mind. Meanwhile, there's a whole different brand of cognitive science, say, so m i t was always like the chomsky and those guys were always asserted associated with nativeism. And over at use san diego, you had like this, the hot bed of a rebirth of empiricism. So is language the result of a dedicated competitional process? Sochomsky argued, of course.
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