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    Like… they don’t have words for sets of common objects? They’re completely incapable of recognizing similarities/sets,...
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    Each object is itself a defined category, though, a scatterplot of observed information grouped together for the sake of...
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  17. selfreplicatingquinian said: They would need absurd communication bandwidth, or absurd compression to the point of extreme lossiness.
  18. enchantedconsole said: f names, and since the category of all things worth naming is impossible to form without rules, other categories would have to be formed too.
  19. enchantedconsole said: I think for the case of things “breaking” this mind would have a different word for each way that something could break. Still, I don’t think that such a mind is possible because without concepts, there is nothing to differentiate between the chair and the individual chunks of material that comprise the chair. So eventually there would have to be a point where the category of things worth naming is formed. From here other categories can be developed, like the category o
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    well if they don’t have categorisation ‘them’ and 'us’ wouldn’t exist to them, so they wouldn’t make anything of 'us’
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    Could a mind understand things without being able to consider attributes of things?Recently I saw the wikipedia article...
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    They would still have to knock boots sometimes
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious
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    See: Borges, “Funes the Memorious” (also the Luria monograph about the mnemonist)
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    There’s a species in Farscape that is like this. The universal translators the show uses (translator microbes in the...
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