The Backus-Naur form had already been formulated by the Indian pandit Pāṇini, four centuries BC, in his formalization of Sanskrit grammar. Aristotle was more or less contemporary with him. As the first phenomenologist in history, his perspective is still the foundation of modern thought. He glimpsed what modern neuroscience demonstrated 2,400 years later. In the technical field, nothing truly new has ever been done or said in relation to the human.
«Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter»
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