Language of Thought

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Can we use language as the method of querying memory?

• proposes thinking occurs in a mental language, this is called mentalese
  • computations in a classical way
  • classical computational architecture distinguishes between data-structures and rules/programs which operate on said structures
• neural networks or connectionist networks challenges any argument for mentalese (as they don’t fall under the GOFAI/classical computation category)