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The Fractal Beauty of Emergence: Re-EnVisioning Intelligence in Man and Machine Big Questions What Makes Us Human? Language Language : Nature or Nurture? The Current Dogma Emergence: Escaping the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy Language as Emergence Fractals: Structure Without Rules Language as a Fractal Implications for AI / Cog. Sci. Implications for Transhumanism Simon D. Levy Department of Computer Science Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 /~levy What makes us human? What keeps us from becoming more? How do our metaphors hold us (and our artefacts) back? Soul / Spirit Emotion Consciousness Intelligence Language Reference to distal objects/events Reference to (others’) beliefs Structure (syntax) Rule-governed - Acquisition automatic - “Inexplicable” patterns across languages - Trans-finite / recursive representations Skinner (1940’s-50’s): Verbal Behavior Chomsky (50’s…): Universal Grammar Language is fundamentally digital (recursive, symbolic, rule-based) computation Like the rest of human psychology, this computation is largely determined by biological evolution Chomsky: Accidental, non-adaptive Pinker: Survival value of communication “Inexplicable” patterns across languages Language itself evolves adaptively (Universal) patterns emerge under constraints of communication Sounds (phonemes) emerge as attractors in perception/action space [Browman / Goldstein / Studdert-Kennedy] Universal syntactic patterns emerge from constraints on processing [Hurford / Kirby/ Batali] Fractal self-similarity mirrors self-similarity (embedding) in language… Trans-finite / recursive representations ... But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved in what ... But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what – Wallace Stevens I know. Fractals can be directly implemented in