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The Trouble with AI: It’s Not What You Think! | Prof. James Madden

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The Role of Birth in Language Acquisition

Charles Taylor: Children can only become speakers by being taught a language. Peter Hobson: If a child fails to experience interpersonal engagement, the elaborate circuitry of the brain proves to be about as useful as a computer hardware working with inadequate software. All right. We're natal literally in that we have to be born. But two, we're natal in this sense, right? That our point of origin in the sense of the bonds that we're born into make a difference for our acquisition and ability to exercise thought. What there's, and so I went to see is like this is, it's a kind of vulnerability. It’s a distinctive human vulnerability, right? We

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