# Walking robots and local grammars

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-14-walking-robots-and-local-grammars

The piece uses autonomous walking circuits as an analogy for overlapping local language processes that do not require a central grammar module.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 July 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 14 July 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: technology, grammar, cognition, analogy.

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