I really enjoyed reading this, thank you! Sometimes it seems to me that language is like its own organism, co-evolving with human beings, such that to be human is, as Harari points to, to be in a symbiotic relationship with language. However, this is better understood if we think of all things as complex conjunctions of interweaving processes rather than "things" that are stable: https://rheomode.org/what-does-rheomode-mean/
Yeah I read a lot of Burroughs when I was younger but I def look at it more as a metaphor, but who knows? Language is very old. I’ll defer to Chomsky and people who are way more learned than myself to speculate on its origins but I’m endlessly fascinated by it
Thank you! I’m glad it resonated with you. I will def check that link out. I agree, language is anything but stable. So fascinating to think of the way it has evolved as we have. Who knows where it will be in the next thousand years?
Dig the lingo
I really enjoyed reading this, thank you! Sometimes it seems to me that language is like its own organism, co-evolving with human beings, such that to be human is, as Harari points to, to be in a symbiotic relationship with language. However, this is better understood if we think of all things as complex conjunctions of interweaving processes rather than "things" that are stable: https://rheomode.org/what-does-rheomode-mean/
There’s also the whole “language is a virus” theory which is pretty wild...
Indeed! Though I like it better as a metaphor than anything else, it definitely provokes you to look at language differently.
Yeah I read a lot of Burroughs when I was younger but I def look at it more as a metaphor, but who knows? Language is very old. I’ll defer to Chomsky and people who are way more learned than myself to speculate on its origins but I’m endlessly fascinated by it
Thank you! I’m glad it resonated with you. I will def check that link out. I agree, language is anything but stable. So fascinating to think of the way it has evolved as we have. Who knows where it will be in the next thousand years?
Thanks!!! I’m really glad you enjoyed it