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> the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there. Ah, the good old wrong idea that somehow language is a tool that can clone
by johnchristopher 6y ago
> the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there.
Ah, the good old wrong idea that somehow language is a tool that can clone ideas from one brain to another. It doesn't work like that.
- davidivadavid 6y agoRight. I'm surprised at how little thought people seem to have put into that idea. You can hear echoes of that when Musk talks about all the Neuralink stuff and just communicating with "pure thoughts" or whatever. What these pure thoughts and ideas, disconnected from language, are supposed to be, is left as an exercise to the listener.
- johnchristopher 6y agoI am coming from this angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle_model
- just1morething 6y agoCan we write our way from the idea idea? If so, how? If not, why?