Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 41 of 68

The symbol-symbol merry-go-round

Could you ever learn Chinese as a first language, with only the aid of a Chinese-Chinese dictionary? Harnard likens this to a symbol-symbol merry-go-round.

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