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madnessandmachines t1_j1zousp wrote

Reply to comment by comefromspace in [D] DeepMind has at least half a dozen prototypes for abstract/symbolic reasoning. What are their approaches? by valdanylchuk

Also “the structure of language follows from abstracting the world into compact communicable units” is itself a “folk theory” of languages. Many supposedly neuroscientific theories of language are little more than conjecture based on assumptions.

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comefromspace t1_j23hsyi wrote

It is a conjecture that can be tested however, starting with artificial networks. I don't think it's folk theory because it s not mainstream at all

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