Language as Kluge: The Imperfect Evolution of Human Cognition - 2008

Language as Kluge: The Imperfect Evolution of Human Cognition - 2008

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Language as Kluge: The Imperfect Evolution of Human Cognition - 2008

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  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Linguistic Theory
  3. 3 Human Languages
  4. 4 Virtual Conceptual Necessity
  5. 5 Bayesian Decision Theory
  6. 6 Confirmation Bias
  7. 7 Time Scales
  8. 8 Evolution has no foresight
  9. 9 Local maximum
  10. 10 Does your back hurt
  11. 11 Evolution builds clues for
  12. 12 Lack of foresight
  13. 13 Ambiguity
  14. 14 In a hurry
  15. 15 Release humans
  16. 16 Descent with modification
  17. 17 Evolution is like a tinker
  18. 18 Evolutionary inertia
  19. 19 Evolution and Kluge
  20. 20 Syntax
  21. 21 Memory
  22. 22 Context Dependent Memory
  23. 23 Safe Deposit Boxes
  24. 24 Memories
  25. 25 Tables
  26. 26 Engine
  27. 27 Treelets
  28. 28 Modularity Theory
  29. 29 Approximation
  30. 30 Garden Path sentences
  31. 31 Computer memory
  32. 32 Local confusion
  33. 33 Vision
  34. 34 Width
  35. 35 Escher
  36. 36 Recap
  37. 37 Parsers
  38. 38 Evolution of shaped competence
  39. 39 Ambiguity in language
  40. 40 Boaz Khazar

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