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BEFORE THE WORD

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Before the Word: What the World's Oldest Grammar Teaches Us About the Mind, Language, and Artificial Intelligence

More than 2,500 years ago, a grammarian named Pāṇini produced something the world had never seen: a complete, formal description of a language - precise enough to be a computer program, elegant enough to be considered sacred. The Ashtadhyayi predates modern linguistics by two millennia, yet it anticipates the deepest questions now confronting artificial intelligence. How does mea...