Vilde’s Reviews > The Language of Thought > Status Update

“If what I have been saying is true, than all such computational advantage being – all the facilitatory effects of language upon thought – will have to be explained away by reference to ‘performance’ parameters like memory, fixation of attention, etc. Another way to put this is: If an angel is a device with infinite memory and omnipresent attention […] there’s no point in angels learning Latin.”