language fits nicely into the memory-prediction framework without any special language sauce or dedicated language machinery. Spoken and written words are just patterns in the world, as are melodies, cars, and houses. The syntax and semantics of language are not different from the hierarchical structure of other everyday objects. And in the same way that we associate the sound of a train with the visual memory image of a train, we associate spoken words with our memory of their physical and semantic counterparts. Through language one human can invoke memories and create new juxtapositions of
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