Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nottathrowaway3 1188 days ago
> And there is no ceiling yet in sight

We are approaching the time when we find out if the human brain uses language encoding as its core mechanism of thought, or if it has any tricks left up its damp, fleshy sleeve.

1 comments

This would certainly vindicate several fields, 20th century analytic phil among them, with its laser focus on linguistic analysis.

It's breathtaking for a philosopher to live through this era. I just wish I wasn't so frightened by the likely practical implications of handing out such a powerful tool-that-can-be-a-weapon (a TTCBAW) to anyone who can pull down a torrent.