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    It is not the case that Human cognitive and physical constraints entail that any actual language use is bounded by finite biological lifespans and memory limits.

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    • 1.Language exists trans-individually through communities and writing; individual constraints don't entail bounded language systems themselves.
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    • 2.External storage (books, digital media) functionally extends memory beyond biological limits, decoupling language use from neural constraints.
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    • 3.The claim conflates psychological limits with logical/structural limits; language competence may exceed performance despite cognitive bounds.
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    • 1.Human brains have finite neural capacity; memory degradation occurs naturally with age and disease, empirically limiting language retention.
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    • 2.Every individual human dies within ~120 years; this biological fact necessarily bounds any single person's language use to finite duration.
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    • 3.Working memory capacity is limited to ~7 items; this constrains real-time sentence processing and practical communication complexity.
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