[BenLurkin]

Is it wrong to lack faith in “an evolutionary mathematical model”

[ecomcon]

One thing for sure; none of it is true.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Flexible object combination and nesting (otherwise known as recursion) are characteristic features of all human languages.

If you're interested in recursion, I invite you to read anything by Edgar Allen Poe. He was a master of 'flexible object combination and nesting' - so much so that I have to really concentrate to comprehend his works.

[Grampa Dave]

So the good Dr. Dr. Vyshedskiy, stepped into his time machine and went back 70,000 years to validate this theory.

We have so much bad science based on half A$$ed assumptions with zero validity.

[sparklite2]

I found Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind much more interesting.

"When Julian Jaynes...speculates that until late in the second millennium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis through all the corroborative evidence..."

- John Updike, in The New Yorker

[arthurus]

There seems to be some retrogression of the process in the modern world. Leftists seem to have limited or no recursive language.

[Openurmind]

I’m sure they were verbally communicating long before this. And used non-verbal sign/body language before that. even dogs can communicate with each other.

[MeganC]

“Unlike vocabulary and grammar acquisition, which can be learned throughout one’s lifetime, there is a strong critical period for the development of PFS and individuals not exposed to conversations with recursive language in early childhood can never acquire PFS as adults.”

This would explain why so many lower-income people would seem to be unable to have complex conversations, a sense of place or history, and why they seem to live in a fog.

In short, and I will say this first, the author should prepare to be denounced as a racist.

[glorgau]

Hmm, sounds like this idea of recursive parsing of language could be used to improve the current state of the art “natural language processing” approaches. Most work by inferring meaning of text by adjacencies of words within the multi-dimensional vector spaces built by training a neural network against a large corpus. Might require a few more layers to build representations of possible meanings of word “groupings”.

But that is just a guess;-)

[Fresh Wind]

I don’t know about recursive language, but I learned cursive language at a young age.

And got my mouth washed out with soap.