Biological physicist #HH_Pattee on the futility of the attempts to create artificial #intelligence by reverse engineering #language.

“No amount of #semiotic information, thought, or discourse alone can cause the body to move. It takes some #physics. As Waddington has pointed out, the first function of #language was to cause #actions, not to make #statements.”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-009-9061-5

#LLMs #AGI #AI