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Re:Natural language instructions induce generalization in ne... by red75prime on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:22AM (#39763374)
How can you know that it's symbolic if you have no conscious access to it? Processes happen in the brain, some results in explicit symbolic representation, others not so much. Bringing "language" into this does not achieve much besides the fact that language we use to communicate plays some role in internal monologue.
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Re:Natural language instructions induce generalization in ne... by coldtea on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:41AM (#39767296)
>How can you know that it's symbolic if you have no conscious access to it?

Well, it has to be able refer to things (it can't include the actual objects), not to mention handle abstractions and concepts.

An animal can do that with direct response/manipulation/pointing etc, humans must do it at a symbolic level to handle the world at the level we do.

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