Sounds very much like {Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, Robert Berwick}’s brand new paper on the mathematics of Syntactic Merge [0]: workspace :: nested forests

Sounds very much like {Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, Robert Berwick}’s brand new paper on the mathematics of Syntactic Merge [0]: workspace :: nested forests of binary trees of syntactic structures (with no label order) (= here, thoughts and meanings are assumed to be composites of mental syntax objects that can be re-combined with others. Big assumption? Maybe) externalization process :: some mental faculty that decides the order to use when outputting thoughts into ordered strings (eg vocalization of thoughts into sentences) The thing is, you can put a probability theory onto anything that you can count or record states of. Of course, counting the external observations may lack the richness of the internal process. I feel that this linguistic program will work its way into a lot of future LM tooling, in some incarnation or another. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18278 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18278