Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
by paulmd on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:11PM
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> 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.
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.