Dan, List: > On Apr 19, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Dan Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also Steve Piantadosi (Berkeley Psychology) has shown that all the memory > needed for much of language is about 1.5 megabytes, a small amount, with the > amount of memory required for syntax neglible, more evidence that symbols > drive syntax.
If this is true then it is in stark contrast with the symbolic representations of organic chemistry. The words are limited to the 92 elements of the table of elements and the syntax grows, very roughly speaking, factorially with count of the number of symbols of molecular formula and the complete graph representing all the nuclei and electrons of the molecular formula. Cheers Jerry
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