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@cstross @emilygorcenski There is a shedload of wetware specifically to recognize faces. It's why we can see faces in clouds.

The problem with Chomsky's grammar notions is that no one has been able to find it. There's a bunch of developmental stuff about sound order in infants and another bunch of developmental stuff leading up to theory of mind, but the organization of language doesn't seem to be especially constrained.

I think the "psychic illusion" take is much closer.