So beautifully worded!
In an analogy where thinking is computing, language is the operating system: a support layer on top of thinking, that streamlines it, expands the space of thoughts, and most importantly enables thinking to become networked across agents
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I would see it the other way around. Thinking only evolves with repeated impressions of patterns in the environment, "sense-making": mutual observable actions and reactions that become signals, utterances and ultimately language.
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You’ve probably already read it, but
@danieldennett expands on this concept in his excellent “From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds” (and like “Probably Approximately Correct” it provides some excellent non-anthropomorphic ways of conceptualising intelligence).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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