Words to SDR?

[Bitking]

In this thread, I assert that the significant part of what we associate with intelligence comes with language learning. If you are satisfied with making an AGI with the capabilities of a cat then you don’t need language but you will also have significantly less function in your AGI.

Language the base of conscious thought?

Language is partly innate and partially learned. We have the necessary mental hardware but without the social training, we can’t learn the tricks that come with developing the motor skills that we call language. Learning these motor skills come with a corresponding training of the matching sensory skill set. Part of this learned skill set is symbolic representation. There are sad cases of people that are raised without learning language past the critical period for language plasticity. It has …