Language is a way of composing functions by making them low dimensional and discrete. I think of artificial languages (programming and math) as bottoming out in logical functions, natural languages in perceptual categories (which includes the perception of transitions and agency)
I have aphantasia, so I cannot check before tomorrow morning, but I can imagine sounds with continuous pitch changes
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Did not expect a proponent of the perception == generation hypotheses to have aphantasia :D. It seems the brain can construct pseudocontinuous reps by comparing continuous states ("a bit higher", "a bit to the right"). There are only continuous subconscious reps.
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I think it's important to realize that the method of discretization, while fundamental, is not well understood. There's room for a breakthrough here. A single variable audio input of 3 sequential piano notes gets turned into 3 discrete objects, yet experience itself is cont. How?
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