No country for old linguists: LLM-brain alignment underdetermines neural computation

arXiv:2609.03160 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Terminology

• Alignment — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Admissibility — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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