The Signifier Without a Subject
On Lacan, Language, and What Anthropic’s AI Research Accidentally Proved
In a companion essay, I argued that language carries what I called a “transferable fossil of behavior” — that the converging evidence from linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and economics shows language is not a description of behavior but a mechanism that produces it. The strongest piece of evidence came from an unexpected source: Anthrop…
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