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Granted, but what about this would suggest that code or math should necessarily activate the language center?
by theodric 2y ago
Granted, 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.