joe dees wrote:
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> What are the necessary and essential cognitive and physical
> conditions for the possibility of language to occur?
If you really want to know?
The whole symbol architecture, a few domain modules, and a syntactic processing mechanism on top. "Coding a Transhuman AI" doesn't have a particular section on language, but it has quite a bit of the grounding.
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