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“Language” is an important abstraction—but one should never forget that it’s an abstraction. Language evolved in the context of embodied action, and even the most abstract language is full of words and phrases referring to embodied experience. Even our mathematics is heavily based on our embodied experience—geometry is about space; calculus is about space and time; algebra is a sort of linguistic manipulation generalized from experience-oriented language, etc.
Co-authored with Samir Araujo and Welter Silva.
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Goertzel, B., Pennachin, C., Geisweiller, N. (2014). Embodied Language Processing. In: Engineering General Intelligence, Part 2. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 6. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-030-0_29
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