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1. yarg+cv5[view] [source] 2024-10-19 19:25:20
>>orcul+(OP)
Is this not obvious?

Language is a very poor substitute for freely flowing electrical information - it is evolved to compensate for the bottlenecks to external communication - bottlenecks that are lacking an internal analogue.

It's also a highly advanced feature - something as heavily optiimised as evolved life would not allow something as vital as cognition to be hampered by a lack of means for high fidelity external expression.

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2. IIAOPS+Iv5[view] [source] 2024-10-19 19:28:33
>>yarg+cv5
It is not at all obvious that "freely flowing electrical information" isn't just language in a different medium, much the same as video on a cassette tape.
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3. yarg+yB5[view] [source] 2024-10-19 20:14:55
>>IIAOPS+Iv5
Yes it is.

Language is designed to be expressible with low fidelity vibrating strings - it is very clear that the available bandwidth is in the order of bytes per second.

Verses a fucking neural network with ~100 billion neurons.

Come on man, seriously - the two communication modalities are completely incomparable.

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