Re:Talking is throwing fictional worlds at one another
by dorchadas on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:39AM
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The issue, in my opinion, is separating the fact from the language shaping the thought to the thought shaping the language. It quickly leads into strong linguistic relativity, which has been proven wrong. And even the weak form, in my opinion, isn't very strong proof that it's necessarily a specific language, as opposed to cultural influences, affecting it.
Re:Talking is throwing fictional worlds at one another
by 082349872349872 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:51AM
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an attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23856845
or Story of Your Life
Formal diagrams (still potentially unbounded combinations of a bounded symbolic repertoire, but connected in more than just a temporal dimension) are as close as I can think of at the moment.
Anyone know of more recent work on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... ?
This is such a tantalizing idea, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to extend it beyond "we don't know what it would be like to think with a different language paradigm, but it would probably be different." I want to know how human thoughts are shaped and constrained by human language.