Finding Language in the Brain
I have an idea that&#x27;s admittedly a bit left of field but not-quite-crackpot.<p>Purpose and causation (and reasoning therein) is structured like a tree. You can always take a statement and ask for pointers up and down the tree by asking &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot;. Ignoring the specific semantics, everything can be modeled as &quot;things&quot; and force in support&#x2F;opposition from those things to other things. Thus you arrive at a model of whatever semantics which is just networks of lines of support and attack.<p>So here&#x27;s my strange idea: what if language maps literally to connections of neurons. The parse tree of a sentence literally encodes the connections of the electrical circuit which models things applying force in support or opposition to other things.<p>This is probably wrong, but its not obvious why it is wrong, and the process of showing that its wrong probably has some insights into a model that isn&#x27;t wrong. So I throw my wild conjecture to the wind anyway.