“vast majority of people who have studied both cognitive science and modern linguistics would concur”

Having studied an awful lot of Linguistics as an undergraduate, I do concur. It was vaguely fascinating how grammatically correct nonsensical sentences could be generated.

Another undergraduate professor I had in computer science was renowned for some earlier “AI” iterations (before the 1990s when I was his student) and as one of my fellow classmates “joked” about that professor’a lectures, it was as if he had internalized his own “AI” routines, spouting off words which all seemed correct syntactically, but were completely meaningless.

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