to use the idea of trees/computers(ai)/etc you mentioned below- if I scan a page from a textbook into the computer, is that image in language? I do not think it is.
And I do. Thus the difference in definitions.
the computer, does not have to even understand that translation as language- it is just assigning the codes after all and those words mean nothing to it
But the computer's software is programmed in a language. Indeed, what is language if not "assigning codes"?
And to invoke the experience of consciousness is, I think, a distraction; we don't know what a computer understands but I do know that my neurons are exchanging symbols without understanding, and that language arises organically out of these processes.
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Date: 2008-03-26 02:11 pm (UTC)And I do. Thus the difference in definitions.
the computer, does not have to even understand that translation as language- it is just assigning the codes after all and those words mean nothing to it
But the computer's software is programmed in a language. Indeed, what is language if not "assigning codes"?
And to invoke the experience of consciousness is, I think, a distraction; we don't know what a computer understands but I do know that my neurons are exchanging symbols without understanding, and that language arises organically out of these processes.