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. 2023 Oct 2:46:e256.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23000614.

Graphic codes, language, and the computational niche

James Winters  1
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Graphic codes, language, and the computational niche

James Winters. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Human language looms large in the emergence and evolution of graphic codes. Here, I argue that language not only acts as a strong constraint on graphic codes, but it is also a precondition for their emergence and their evolution as computational devices.

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