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At the risk of just being flippant, duh. Language is a means for expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and data. Code is a means for instructing a machine ho
by theodric 2y ago
At the risk of just being flippant, duh. Language is a means for expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and data. Code is a means for instructing a machine how to behave. One encapsulates as much of the experience of being a human as we've been able to cram into it, and the other is a shopping list. They are not the same.
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoThere's quite some things that seem to only/best be expressed as code or mathematical formulas, rather than as natural language. (things like cellular automata come to mind)
- theodric 2y agoGranted, but what about this would suggest that code or math should necessarily activate the language center?
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoIt suggests that the language center may not be sufficient for all forms of understanding. I guess there's a reason why we have the rest of our brains as well! (Possibly the above might seem too glib at first. So, reasoning further...: ) But this is confusing, since natural language should -by necessity- also be Turing complete and thus be able to express anything expressible in the known universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Would that mean that some form of Sapir-Whorf would apply, where in the case of some languages, a completely different part of the brain is activated even? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity . I think -intuitively- the best way to see it is some amalgamation of weak-form Sapir-Whorf and Turing equivalence should apply: Not all data structures are equally good at expressing the same things: Some are better than others, depending on the domain.