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Joshua Greene on the Construction of Thought

Philosophy Bites

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Is There a Relationship Between Patterns Activity and Meaning?

The language of thought hypothesis says the only way you're gingto be able to represent all these ideas is if you have a commonatorial process. And so what we did was we looked within this area and we said, ok, we're going to do a mixing match. We've got like dog and cat and man and girl, or something like that. And then we have chased and scratched and other verbs where you can have the same entities on both sides. Ray: It's consistent with the idea that this is really part of the pathway to understanding as opposed to just a place where words are being registered in the ear.

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