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Re:The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road by JKCalhoun on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:22AM (#36467056)
That human thought can't exist without language has been proposed by many great thinkers in the past. Someone who studies linguistics (or philosophy?) can probably cite examples.

As a crude anecdote, certain words when I learned them allowed me to think differently. Gestalt is one of those words.

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Re:The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road by zincly on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:56PM (#36471448)
This begs the question, can a different language change the limits of human thought?

Interesting to think about and reminds me of the story by Ted Chiang.

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Re:The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road by RossBencina on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:49AM (#36476896)
This may interest you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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