MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 2 | The Chain of Words and the Tree of Language
We sojourn through our next great work of polymathic erudition. This time by Arthur Koestler.
Conversations with our fellow humans are chained in complexity, beyond the mechanization of slot machines; the transactional.
Language is poly-dimensional mischief-maker, by sound and phoneme, as in written words and morphemes. A dog who kicks a postmen isn't the Noam we are looking for but it does help us branch out the conundrum.
Speaking is hierarchical. To speak is to express logic, song.
Just because we are not slot machines, that doesn't make us Jukeboxes.