[mxkopy]

I also had this thought. Something I read about semiotics gave me (or spelled out) the idea that the brain communicates to itself using language, however abstract.

https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2019/05/02/ask-the-brain-can-we-thi...

Turns out, that might not be the case-i.e. understanding is probably not a linguistic phenomenon.

Sometimes, after I put down the crack pipe, I think that understanding and experiencing are two names for something that's fundamentally the same. When I'm thinking about code or a proof, my brain filters out the spacing of the letters, the smell of the paper, etc-which are things I'd do while I'm reading it for the first time. There's these common tools/filters - intuitions - that are exactly the same in thinking and experiencing.

I don't think GPT3 can understand color, for example. But if we fed it a bunch of RGB transforms and raw data, and it generalized and applied them perfectly, could we say then that it's generally intelligent? IDFK