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Charles Han

@biocharles.bsky.social
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Major Language and Human Brain Sciences. Research Interest: [Algebraic] Generative Syntax & Human Intelligence; sometimes political stuff Department of Linguistics. BLCU Website: sites.google.com/view/biohan/home

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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 6h
These gonna bring us some devastating consequences, it turns this whole mathematical entreprise into some sort of monetary and power game. It's not fair. 3/3
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 6h
2. Those who have access to better models will gradually "monopolize the game". 2/3
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 6h
There are (at least) two problems in this AI-math business: 1. These models are trained on many of the mathmaticians' works available online without crediting them. 1/3
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
and the AI−MATH argument is even stranger....first of all, one shall at least ask why a math problem is not solved. Second, that a math problem is not solved does not mean no one is working on it....so why the fuss??
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
tbh, i kinda don't understand why ppl argue over whether LLMs are conscious....
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn't it ?
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And you should really read this piece written by Prof. Matilde Marcolli, whether you're are doing math or not www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/AIm...
its.caltech.edu
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The goal of a business in a capitalist society is profit, not human welfare. That’s an institutional fact: Don’t play the game and you’re out, replaced by someone who will." But since when did mathematics become a "business" ?
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think this is the right thing to do. someone once said to me "everybody is using it, if you don't you gonna get left out". It kinda reminds me of what Chomsky said in his interview with Polychroniou
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My work flow is kinda like: posting the draft immediately after it's finished, and then pretending it's written by somebody I do not like, attack every loophole in it, then revise the paper, attack, revise....the draft might never be perfect, but I hope it'll be better after every revision.
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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Conferences ought to be venues where small communities of researchers can gather for a few days, hear about new work, and discuss new ideas one-on-one. You can't do that when there are multiple tracks, spotlight talks, poster sessions where authors aren't present, etc.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is really bad....
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
academic.oup.com/monist/issue
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Issues | The Monist | Oxford Academic
One of the oldest and most important journals in philosophy. Publishes quarterly thematic issues on particular philosophical topics which are edited by leading philosophers in the corresponding fields...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
True, I've read a paper written by him about busy beaver problem, quite a fun read. also, I've read a blogpost of his denouncing Chomsky's opinions on LLMs. cannot believe they are written by the same person.
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interesting piece doi.org/10.1162/LING...
doi.org
Advances in Mathematical Linguistics: Phonology Is Flat
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok, I'm done with the struggle, I put'em all on researchgate now. www.researchgate.net/profile/Char...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All set!!
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok, so now I have this added.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wrote a sidenote lifelanguagecomputation.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...
lifelanguagecomputation.blogspot.com
Some Sidenotes upon My Tentative Proof of Chomsky(1956)'s Claim concerning FSG.
The Claim : if S has an m -termed dependency set, then at least 2^m   states are necessary for the FSG that generates L. Here is The proof ....
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science
openletter.earth
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🫀I'm dying haha
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ok, the access issue is fixed. 🥲forgot to share the access at first.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
try this www.mediafire.com/file/n6fk92l...
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android epistemology (Unknown)
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The first link is down because I found some typos. Use the below link instead, typos are fixed. drive.google.com/file/d/1EKY5...
drive.google.com
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
Multiple Nested Distributed Language Networks in the Human Brain
Brain regions specialized for language have been extensively described, yet their arrangement into one or multiple networks remains debated. Using precision functional mapping across three independent...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Here you go ☺️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
Computational complexity for cognitive scientists
Here, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, …
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
By Paul Pietroski iai.tv/articles/wor...
iai.tv
Words do not refer to reality
<p><em>We tend to think that words refer to things in the world. We believe words latch on to parts of reality, and that these connections are the fundamental source of linguistic meaning. But linguis...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My personal feeling is, for any theory, the best way to keep its vitality is to constantly revise it whenever new insights are systematically available, and this is exactly what Chomsky and his collegues have been doing, the traction is simply the natural consequence of this.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A Unified Neural Time Course for Words, Phrases, and Sentences: MEG Evidence from Parallel Presentation direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...
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A Unified Neural Time Course for Words, Phrases, and Sentences: MEG Evidence from Parallel Presentation
Abstract. Recent behavioral and neural research on reading shows that humans can extract syntactic structure from short sentences within a fraction of a second—faster than many estimates for recognizi...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature
In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anyone knows where I can find this? Many thx
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is a really nice paper, anyone who's interested in relevant topics should read it.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks?: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks?
Some of the strongest evidence that human minds should be thought of in terms of symbolic systems has been the way they combine ideas, produce novelty, and learn quickly. We argue that modern neural n...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Rethinking how memories are retrieved
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Memory Encoding and Retrieval: Rethinking how memories are retrieved
Patterns of neural activity called theta oscillations have a role in memory encoding but – contrary to current thinking – do not appear to have a role in memory retrieval.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
Computability and Computational Explanation
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Computability and Computational Explanation
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
sounds interesting www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
Innateness in Mind
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Innateness in Mind
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Disentangling hierarchical and sequential computations during sentence processing
Sentences in natural language have a hierarchical structure that can be described in terms of nested trees. To compose sentence meaning, the human bra…
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Categorization, the grouping of objects, living organisms, actions or events into equivalence clusters, is fundamental to adaptive behaviour. In this Perspective, Barrett and Miller discuss evidence t...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=nQx3...
youtube.com
Sundance Documentary Spotlight Valerie Veatch on Ghost in the Machine | Kickin’ It With Tyree
YouTube video by Kickin' It With Tyree
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🤦‍♂️
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And how in the heck dare you say something like this account has none to do with this person while all you use in your videos is solely this person's image?
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I recently encountered several youtube channels posing AI-generated videos in which some impactful public intellectuals said something they had never spitted out their mouth according to my knowledge, let me remind y'all, this is also one way of distroying knowledge and truth.
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New paper out today — on the evolution of language and how algebraic models of grammar might offer novel constraints for theories of neural mechanisms 🧠 arxiv.org/abs/2604.00291
arxiv.org
Frege in the Flesh: Biolinguistics and the Neural Enforcement of Syntactic Structures
Biolinguistics is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the biological foundations, evolution, and genetic basis of human language. It treats language as an innate biological organ or faculty of t...
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
linguistlist.org/issues/37/12...
linguistlist.org
LINGUIST List 37.1248 Reviews: Towards a label-less grammar: Joanna Wall (2025)
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
it can be found here. wordpress.its.virginia.edu/Paul_Humphre...
wordpress.its.virginia.edu
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I-langage is hierarchical, according to Chomsky, but I-language has none to do with WMC. I mean, there must be some sort of relation between the two, but WMC does not seem to be a genuine explanation of this universal hierarchical-ness.
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Charles Han @biocharles.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just read the abstract, the result is interesting, but I think the claim that "genuinely explaining the universal hierarchical nature of HL" might be too strong. The question is "Why is human language hierarchical?".
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