Perplexed comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

18 Post author: rwallace 04 November 2010 08:22PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 05 November 2010 11:48:16PM 2 points [-]

Speech is a kind of symbolic processing, and is probably an important capability in mankind's intellectual evolution, even if symbolic processing for the purpose of reasoning (as in syllogisms and such) is an ineffectual modern invention.