Re Bruce Nevin (039210.0828)
Is that what you were getting at, Avery?
Yes. The idea that the pre-adapation for language is guessing
what people are up do by watching what they are doing. Given this,
one can convey intentions by miming, from which arises manual
sign language. Then one has to get from that to spoken language,
a step which strikes me as very mysterious.
Needless to say, the term `motor program' should be interpreted very
loosely, along the lines of a collection of ECS's such that the
one having an error-signal of (approximately) zero is the precondition
for the next one doing anything at all (as in my posting about getting
a beer).
Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au