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The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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The Transition From Visual Cognition to Language Acquisition
I applied to both Harvard and MIT, but I only got into MIT. And physics is a richer field, so they tend to pay your way. My thesis was on the representation of three dimensional space in mental images when we imagine a scene that isn't physically present. So it's not like we have 3D voxels, like a kind of mental sandbox,. What we see is always a set of surfaces and we are aware of how far away they are... But it is not like molding clay. Anyway, that was the thesis; at the same time I wrote a theoretical paper for my grad school on language acquisition. The input to this box is sentences drawn from any of the
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