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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by paulmd on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:11PM (#36329080)
> A concept is a sensory-motor technique abstracted into a pattern of thought developed by an animal, in a spatio-temporal environment, for a purpose.

Hi, since human linguistics is the sole repository of linguistic conceptualism, can you please show me which of the neurons is the "doggie" neuron, or the "doggie" cluster of neurons? I want to know which part of the brain represents the thing that goes wag-wag.

If you can't mechanically identify the exact locality of the mechanism within the system, it doesn't really exist, right? It's just a stochastic, probabilistic model, humans don't understand the wag-wag concept, they just have some neurons that are weighted to fire when other neurons give them certain input stimuli tokens, right?

This is the fundamental problem: you are conflating the glue language with the implementation language in humans too. Human concepts are a glue-language thing, it's an emergent property of the C-language structure of the neurons. But there is no "doggie" neuron in a human just like there is no "doggie" neuron in a neural net. We are just stochastic machines too, if you look at the C-lang level and not the glue-language level.

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