fedorenko

Ev Fedorenko is a highly recognized cognitive scientist that has been studying how humans parse language for years.

Fedorenko's own comparison to "early LLMs" suggests she thinks the analogy has some merit.

These are empirical facts developed from Aristotle, Cassirer, Halliday into Fedorenko, yet CS takes not note of it.

Thought could employ other forms of linguistic-like processes that Fedorenko's experiments, or even current brain-imaging techniques, fail to capture.

This would support Fedorenko's view that the language network is revealing structure already present in language, rather than constructing it.

Fedorenko's "glorified parser" could be the Level 1 system.

> Fedorenko's own comparison to "early LLMs" suggests she thinks the analogy has some merit.

Fedorenko’s research on predictive sequencing in the brain fits too.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024 What are LLMs?

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024.at some point a direct contact must occur between knowledge and reality.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024 The problem with the materialist POV is it doesn't solve the most basic question of brain states.

I’m excited for the Lojban work: > To further refine the features of language that activate the brain’s language network, Fedorenko’s lab is now planning to study how the brain responds to a conlang called Lojban, which was created by the Logical Language Group in the 1990s and was designed to prevent ambiguity of meanings and promote more efficient communication.

Fedorenko's own comparison to "early LLMs" suggests she thinks the analogy has some merit.

Fedorenko's "glorified parser" could be the Level 1 system.

> Fedorenko's own comparison to "early LLMs" suggests she thinks the analogy has some merit.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024 What are LLMs?

These are empirical facts developed from Aristotle, Cassirer, Halliday into Fedorenko, yet CS takes not note of it.

Thought could employ other forms of linguistic-like processes that Fedorenko's experiments, or even current brain-imaging techniques, fail to capture.

This would support Fedorenko's view that the language network is revealing structure already present in language, rather than constructing it.