How Does The Brain Develop Language?
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- This episode deals with the endlessly fascinating world of language development. Is it nature or nurture, genetics or experience, that shapes our ability to acquire language in childhood? What is the natural human instinct for learning how to connect and communicate really made of? What comes before language, and how does the mind convey meaning through sound? We explore this and more in under ten minutes, to try to understand our linguistic capabilities.
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Steven is fantastic at teasing out subtle but important arguments and inferences from observations. He exemplifies the concept of human intelligence. In other words, he's a smart cookie!
This must have been recorded several years ago. He says Siri and Cortana are the most notable AIs and that they provide incoherent responses to basic sentences.
Gee, I just asked Siri exactly what Steven did, and got essentially inchoate and metaphorical answers. In response to "Did George Washington use a computer?" I got
1) "Did George Washington have a laptop?", and
2) "The Laptops that powered the American Revolution.".
I would think a simple "No" would be the best, most succinct response, But it might be expanded into something like "In the time that Washington lived, technology was not developed to the point that anyone had electronic computers, nor had they even been envisioned."
The responses I got certainly didn't address the fundamental question behind the words, indicating that whatever generated the response didn't really understand what was being asked.
Surely hoping this channel gets some traction. These short essays share the joy of discovery and provide deep wisdom. More people need to be exposed to Dr. Pinker's observations.
Pinker is brilliant. And an excellent teacher....As these lectures show.
The learning layer of the mind is as much a sense as vision is, but it can also take inputs from the sensory vision and auditory layers or their virtual pairs (our mind's eye or ear, our imagination), this sensory module is thus a form of state machine and probably a full Turing machine therefore it is innately capable of processing any language within its capacity bounds. Your language ability is limited by how much context you can hold in the appropriate layers of the brain so as to be able to influence the final output. Your ability to think at a given level of abstraction is also constrained by the context size limit. One example of this is one's ability to fully parse long and highly structured sentences that also use conditionals in a form of compressed logic program that you need to run in order to extract the meaning of the sentence.
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Fantastic primers.
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The way Pinker puts it in this video, it still sounds as if a language is preordained. I would argue that the predispositions we have for language end up shaping the language itself, in turn making the language suitable for acquisition by others with those predispositions. The brunt of those predispositions seems universal given the way children end up speaking the local language regardless of heritage. Variation in these predispositions between cultures can’t be that large.
The grammatical mistake at 8:54 made me snicker a bit, having just heard 8:18 . We’re all very similar in the end, making mistakes at the limit of our ability to compose complex sentences, even if that limit has advanced in adulthood. This particular mistake of losing track of the subject (“the way”) and substituting a more recent word (“thoughts” or “words”) to conjugate a verb (“differ” vs. “differs”) is itself pretty universal.
Even Pinker is talking trash. Any language is acquired by drill and by continuous corrections and approvals. Emotions are fundamental and must be present.