The Necessity of Language for Consciousness (2022)

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In light of recent AI/LLM advances, I thought this review to be particularly exhaustive and compelling

Quote: Converging evidence presented in this review suggests that, if we could precisely excise language and inner speech from the brain without further damage, we would be left without most if not all higher-order and some aspects of primary consciousness

See Watts, Blindsight (2006) for an exploration of the relation between consciousness and intelligence.

(personally, I believe intelligence allows modelling others, and the fact that we then —due to surplus of data?— then model ourselves is a side effect. Is this view consistent with the conclusions of TFA?)

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