Eli5 how does the brain store the meaning of words in your head?

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Does it link words to pictures in your mind? So there is a mapping from the word “owl” to a picture of an owl in your head?

Can I also add that I don’t think this mapping involves word definitions, so for example the word owl won’t map to the word definition of an owl since you need to define words in the definition itself. This causes a never ending chain as you keep having to define words in further definitions.

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Association and fuzzy logic. Your brain associates a word with something and strengthens the connections between association based on importance.

Fuzzy logic is then used for matching objects, so one thing is like something else. This is why you might say it’s kind of like a truck but it’s actually a car.

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