10-2g2c1d Computation is nothing more than an aid to communication

10-2f1a We are making communication efficient not only combinatorically (syntax) but also semantically (by using context)

10-2g2c1e What makes humans unique is not computational ability

• Sapir: “Speech is a non-instinctive, acquired, ‘cultural’ function.”
  • That language is significantly shaped by culture
    • That grammars arise within particular systems of cultural values and that the values and patterns of conversation, telling stories, uttering phrases, and so on, themselves constrain the grammatical structure of a language (10-1b7 Culture and grammar shape each other through their evolved symbiotic relationship)
      • 10-2f0 One cannot understand sentence structures well without understanding the discourses they are embedded in
        • Implications for 8-4 LLMsdevelop