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... The brain uses a mental language to represent and organize complex ideas and concepts. This mental language is thought to be distinct from natural languages like English or Spanish, and it is believed to be the medium through which we think and process information. ...
... According to the LOTH, the structure and content of this mental language are shaped by the structure and content of the natural languages that we learn, but it is not identical to any one natural language. ...
... Instead, it is thought to be a universal language that is used by all humans to represent and process complex ideas. Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ ...
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... Boroditsky has conducted a number of studies that have shown how the language we speak can influence our perception of time, space, and other aspects of our environment. For example, speakers of languages that use different words for different types of snow (e.g. ...
... "wet snow" versus "dry snow") are better at discriminating between different types of snow than speakers of languages that do not make this distinction. ...
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... More precisely, LLMs model the concepts in natural languages using the language (albeit in a different syntax). Obviously, LLMs don't need to learn the concepts from scratch, they already have encoded words. ...
... More importantly, it doesn't need to learn a representation of the kinds of relationships between concepts, those are also encoded in words in the language as well, such as, "is", "belong to," "cause", etc. Here comes the more speculative part. ...
... A language phrase encodes the relationship. Thus one might be able to say that LLMs model the world in language. It might be a totally different gramma from natural language, but a syntax nonetheless and it's quite possible that this syntax is inspired by the syntax in natural language. ...
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... For example, she has shown that speakers of languages that use different words for different types of spatial relationships (e.g. "left" versus "right") are better at remembering the location of objects than speakers of languages that do not make this distinction. ...
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... In some sense, language and its syntax provides the programming language for brains and reduced the need for specialized neural circuitries. ...
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... That is, assign language tokens to objects. not just for communication, e.g., when young children name their dolls. Or when someone comes up with a new concept, they would eager to find a linguistic name for it, even before the need to communicate it. ...
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... All human languages are logical in the sense that the meaning of linguistic expressions corresponding to disjunction (e.g. English *or*, Chinese *huozhe,* Japanese *ka*) conform to the meaning of the logical operator in classical logic, inclusive- *or*. ...
... It is highly implausible, we argue, that children acquire the (logical) meaning of disjunction by observing how adults use disjunction. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x) ...
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... They exist in the form of language. ...
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... How might young school children be introduced to coding? ...
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