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You Don’t Need Words to Think
Saved by Gisel Sánchez and
Pouvons-nous penser sans discours intérieur silencieux ?
le langage n’est pas un mécanisme spécialisé, basé sur des modules cérébraux, et qu’il n’a pas spécifiquement évolué pour sa fonction actuelle la plus évidente, la communication. Au contraire, il s’agit d’un mécanisme plus général qui a évolué pour d’autres raisons, en particulier la pensée.
First, with the coming of “statistical” intelligence, we must let go of the mind metaphor. Where the grammarians were hoping to discover human brain structures by writing chatbots, modern chatbots work by mechanisms emphatically not human. We certainly do not produce language in our minds by statistical probabilities. Our brains do not convert word
... See moreThe development of denotative language enables, not communication in itself, but a special kind of communicating, not thinking itself, but a special kind of thinking.
Brain scanning has confirmed that contrary to Pinker’s “cheesecake” theory, we don’t need our language system to process music.