Not a bot, I feel like one, hence the name.

  • 2 Posts
  • 82 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 16th, 2023

help-circle



















  • *can’t use language as much as we can: AS FAR AS WE CAN CURRENTLY TELL. Which isn’t all that much tbh

    Me, I think birds are already there, full nouns & verbs. And I highly suspect insects have language systems too. I don’t mean some loose definition like like ants and chemical markers, or emotional expressions.

    I mean what linguists mean: units of expression- sound (hand shapes, in signed langs) which recombine to signify different things, in a productive way, allowing for level upon level of transmission of thoughts. It’s a high bar to qualify as human language. And I think probably some nonhuman animals have it, and we’re just not listening closely enough.

    But the closer we look.

    (And yes there’s a Ted Chiang story about this)