Re: This week's Le Monde

*rolls eyes*
Discovering the origin of language between two robot dogs. Um, I'm
pretty sure it's more sophisticated than that. For example, FINGERS
MIGHT BE USEFUL!!!
Talk about barking up the wrong tree.
However, to poke at this argument, I can't read French very well (oh,
I took it to Grade 11, but that's all), so there's likely stuff I
missed. However, the idea seems to be assigning an over-lofty goal to
technology that is still relatively simple.

I myself think that looking at chimps might be a good start, or (FAR
more controversial) isolating somenewborn children in a lab and seeing
if they learn to speak, and how. Of course, wet-nurses would come in,
but silence would needs be maintained from any outside influence.
Even if the children never spoke, the simple motions of reference
would begin to emerge.