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Our ability to use natural language to communicate and co-operate with others is one of the defining characteristics of human intelligence. Much work has been put into developing theories which would explain the structure of language and how it relates to the information processing capabilities of the human mind. In this chapter we philosophically discuss natural language faculty as a being a mechanism conveying embodied information and natural language as such information.
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Niiranen, S., Yli-Hietanen, J., Yli-Harja, O. (2011). Natural Language and Biological Information Processing. In: Niiranen, S., Ribeiro, A. (eds) Information Processing and Biological Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19621-8_10
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