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Language is man’s most powerful system for processing information internally and his most general system both for this purpose and for that of transmitting and receiving it externally; and language itself is subject to processing by the human nervous system, so that when we process information with the aid of language, our nervous systems process that information only indirectly. Language, then, implicates information processing in at least two ways and is, accordingly, quite a fitting topic at this Symposium.
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Peters, P.S. (1969). On the Complexity of Language Processing by the Brain. In: Leibovic, K.N. (eds) Information Processing in The Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87086-6_4
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