Human Language

In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2003)
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Abstract

Natural signs that express emotions, such as laughing or crying, are not limited to human animals. For Descartes, even machines could learn and use a limited language for responding, predictably, to stimuli. The flexibility provided by conventional signs, by abstraction, and by its associated rationality allows for unpredictable responses to stimuli.

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