Unconscious metaphors in the machine
Remember all those painfully boring 10th grade English discussions about what Lord of the Flies really meant? You probably didn’t care much for metaphor then and likely haven’t spent too much time thinking about it since. You should have. Metaphors could really be important. We use metaphors all the time. Our brains just handle them … Read more
Time to start programming
I’ve been posting (infrequently) on this blog for 3 months now. Mostly I’ve been pondering problems relating to NLP and representing language in the computer. Tonight it dawned on me that I can never really even know what the challenges of NLP are until I have actually done some programming. So I downloaded a copy … Read more
Rudimentary Mental Physics
Language cannot be understood solely in terms of words and letters. The brain is too complex; every piece seems to be connected to every other piece. If the mind really is a complex mesh of connections, it is hopeless to think of a “language subsystem” as an isolated group of neurons. Even the very young … Read more
