The Architecture of Thought: Reflective Structures in Mental Constructs

Natural language, the fundamental medium of human communication, has long been a subject of fascination for linguists, philosophers, and computer scientists. Its fluidity, complexity, and depth offer rich areas for exploration and analogy. One intriguing way to view natural language is through the lens of programming paradigms, in particular, the homoiconic concatenative paradigm. This paper couples existing work on the concept of synesthetic language of thought and expands upon it by suggesting that in addition to being synesthetic, it is also homoiconic, and largely concatenative in nature. I use this model of human thought to resolve a contention raised by van Rooij, et al. 2023.