top | item 35001214 (no title) crthpl | 3 years ago Or perhaps the other way around: we are social because we have language. discuss order hn newest slothtrop|3 years ago You think language would spontaneously evolve without a disposition to socialize a-priori? That doesn't make any sense. shrimpx|3 years ago Presumably we needed to “notice” an orange in a tree before we could point to it. Before you could communicate with signs, you could probably realize something equivalent to “that’s food”, despite not having language yet.
slothtrop|3 years ago You think language would spontaneously evolve without a disposition to socialize a-priori? That doesn't make any sense. shrimpx|3 years ago Presumably we needed to “notice” an orange in a tree before we could point to it. Before you could communicate with signs, you could probably realize something equivalent to “that’s food”, despite not having language yet.
shrimpx|3 years ago Presumably we needed to “notice” an orange in a tree before we could point to it. Before you could communicate with signs, you could probably realize something equivalent to “that’s food”, despite not having language yet.
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