When Noam Chomsky was asked, “Do you think machines can think?” he replied dryly, “Can submarines swim?”
This begs an important question beyond lexical semantics, which hints at our limited imagination. We are so quick to anthropomorphise that in our haste, we haven’t even considered if this is the ri…
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