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0 pointslossolo2y ago0 comments

Reasoning and intelligence exists without language.

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You know i assumed that was true until right now. But I can't think of a single example of reason and intelligence existing without any form of language. Even insects have rudimentary language, and in fact reasoning and intelligence seem to scale with the complexity of language, both by species and within species.

Jensson2y ago

Do slime mold have a language? Slime mold can learn and adapt to environments, so it is intelligent and can do rudimentary reasoning, but I doubt it communicates that information to other slime molds.

It is a very different kind of life form though so many things that applies to other complex being doesn't apply to them. Being a large single cell means that they learn by changing its proteins and other internals, very hard for us humans to reason about and understand since it is so alien compared to just having nerve cells with physical connections.

cortic2y ago

Not sure i would say a slime mold has reason and intelligence .. Or if i would then so does a river. Also i think that how it changes its proteins could be considered a language, without stretching the definition of language any more than we have already stretched the definition of reason and intelligence.

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esafak2y ago

I would say language is necessarily discrete, or digital. Slime molds communicate in analog.

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esafak2y ago

I would say language is necessarily discrete, or digital. Slime molds communicate in analog.

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