Let me formulate a hypothesis: what is discovered there at the centre of the system is reminiscent of what must have been the most central part of the unconscious AND/OR the preoccupations of the animal Homo before the emergence of language: the orifices of the human body and the means of filling them.
I myself had put the word ‘mama’ at the centre of ANELLA, (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities) following a suggestion by Roman Jakobson as to the likely first words of any language: “Why ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’?” (1971), but on reflection, ‘hole’ is also a good candidate.
Let me formulate a hypothesis: what is discovered there at the centre of the system is reminiscent of what must have been the most central part of the unconscious AND/OR the preoccupations of the animal Homo before the emergence of language: the orifices of the human body and the means of filling them.
I myself had put the word ‘mama’ at the centre of ANELLA, (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities) following a suggestion by Roman Jakobson as to the likely first words of any language: “Why ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’?” (1971), but on reflection, ‘hole’ is also a good candidate.