Re:On Mind, Language and Machines
by goatlover on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:32AM
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Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks. As for how evolution may have done anything is just a guess until there is empirical data backing up that hypothesis. It’s more likely that Chomsky just assumes everyone’s mind worked like his and used that to tell a just so evolutionary story.
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>Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks
Yes, but these study outliers. Most everybody's brain works the same way (or in a few, finite, ways)
We assume brains work in the same way, but we lack any kind of tooling for examining this other than fMRI. All this high level stuff like conceptualisation and visualisation relies on subjective self-reporting. I don't think we've even proved whether or not Chomsky's "universal grammar" hypothesis is correct.
>We assume brains work in the same way, but we lack any kind of tooling for examining this other than fMRI
Yes, but it's also kind of a no-brainer. We're the same species, with mostly the same wiring...