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Re:Grammar isn't merely part of language (2016) by robertk on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:11PM (#13620337)
It clearly can't be. The genetic SNP delta between humans and other primates is too small to record sufficiently complex cortical changes for something like all of neural symbolic representations.
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Re:Grammar isn't merely part of language (2016) by nitrogen on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:12PM (#13620730)
Even simple cellular automata can produce drastically different behavior given slight tweaks to simple rules, so I don't think that a small genetic delta rules out a large structural change.
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