any benefit that does arise from such words (e.g. "develop" a pawn) arises from having a brain with lots of verbal horsepower
Language that develops around abstract boardgames contains concepts which don't compress any information, they just correspond to situations
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we map situations to arbitrary metaphors and develop musculoskeletal responses to these metaphors that help us process faster
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The feat of a chess master is representing chess in terms so holistic and involved that even a general-purpose nervous system can play it
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what if all "compression" is actually just correspondence to situations?
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given general enough def. of "situations", yeah. I guess I meant "sets of gut feelings that are reminiscent of each other"
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Boardgames commemorate our commiseration in sitting around fires to stave off hypothermia and wild beasts.
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Grunting and hand waving are apropos.
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