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> And it’s not hard to see why; while humans have dedicated neural circuitry for natural language, it would be absurd to suggest there is dedicated neural circu
by psychphysic 3y ago
> And it’s not hard to see why; while humans have dedicated neural circuitry for natural language, it would be absurd to suggest there is dedicated neural circuitry for fiddling around with the semantics of pushing around arcane symbol abstractly encoded as electrical potentials over a conductive metal.
Huh? It's certainly the case that people who program have dedicated neural circuitry.
Most of the work is not being done by language centres[0]
[0] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-code/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-...