Brilliant. So a chunk of language is a species of sensorimotor control. What chunk is not, exactly?

Similarly, language architecture and sensorimotor architecture (e.g., visually guided grasping) descend from a common neurocomputational architecture. Both build on their ancestral plan and have evolved to solve domain specific problems.

The two cases are exactly the same: humans are a species of ape just like language architecture is a species of sensorimotor control architecture. (Chimp-monkey is a bad example; chimps are not monkeys, but both are primates.) The point is that chimps and humans descend from a common ancestor.

Of course! But that doesn’t justify your “no.” Humans are a species of ape. Would you say yes and no to that as well?

Wanna elaborate?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but it sounds like you're taking it a bit too far?

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I view the IFG as the system that codes linearized plans for production at the syntactic (~pars triangularis) and phonological (~pars opercularis) levels. The core hierarchical component is the pMTG.

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I call it the Linguistic Sensorimotor Model. Ventral areas code targets for production, dorsal areas code plans for execution and a translation system, at each level. Receptive function only involves ventral systems for the most part. The book will be released in late November.

Yeah there were a lot of questions after that early finding. We followed up with a ton of further studies. See me my book for all of the details!