“The laws of physics, in addition to mandating their own comprehensibility through the Turing principle, ensure that the corresponding evolutionary processes, such as life and thought, are neither too time-consuming nor require too many resources of any other kind to occur in reality” – David Deutsch on Deutsch-Turing principle <> [[Scott Aaronson
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- 3-1a4b3 Thomas Sowell - ‘Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.‘
- 4-1d3 The most effective communication is to listen
- 9-4b3e Communicate effectively
- 10-2f1a We are making communication efficient not only combinatorically (syntax) but also semantically (by using context)
- 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)
- That language is significantly shaped by culture