Much of cognitive science reinvents wheels that had been established in the 1920s and 1930s already, namely in sociology of knowledge and related fields. fRMI actually often confirms what had been already observed in a psychoanalytic context. (I don't think it's a good general advice to totally ignore what is already known.)
Well, if you're in need of an established theory of (semantically driven) talking machines and what derives from this, and what this may mean for us in terms of freedom, look no further.
