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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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Is It Unfair to Draw a Line Between Language and Linguistics?

Is it unfair to draw a line between mathematical cognition and language linguistic cognition I think that's a very interesting question. Chomsky had some amazing insights into the structure of natural language but there the actual intuitive knowledge of these things does not go as far in people like Chomsky himself, he says. He believes formally trained linguists have an engagement with experience that is intuitively deeply structured so they can be more organized around systematicity.

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