On 07/01/2014 06:22 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> So all that stuff they told me in school about neurons, dendrites, axons
> thresholds and synapses is wrong then.
Roger's talking about a different level of abstraction, but I've never
found these claims remotely persuasive.
It is fun to watch linguists argue, though.
Thanks,
Simon
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Costello, Roger L. <
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,____
>
> Inside our brain information is in parse trees:____
>
> ____
>
> The parse trees are structured according to a grammar, such as the
> English grammar.____
>
> When I want to communicate information to you I linearize the parse
> tree and transmit the linearization (i.e., the sentence) to you. You
> receive the sentence and immediately reconstruct the parse tree and
> apply semantics to the parse tree:____
>
> ____
>
> So information is exchanged by linearizing a parse tree,
> transmitting the sentence, and at the receiving end reconstructing
> the parse tree.____
>
> This is true for humans as well as for web services: A web service
> has information in a DOM (parse) tree, it linearizes (serializes)
> the DOM tree into an XML string, transmits the XML string, and the
> receiving web service reconstructs the parse tree and then applies
> semantics to it:____
>
> ____
>
> __ __
>
> Neat!____
>
> /Roger____
>
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