I've recently been intrigued by the Leiden Theory of language evolution. It basically suggests that language is perhaps better conceptualized as a separate orga

I've recently been intrigued by the Leiden Theory of language evolution. It basically suggests that language is perhaps better conceptualized as a separate organism that has co-ecological niche which happens to be the co-evolved biology of our minds. This semiotic organism is made of our neural components in a similar way to how simpler biology is made of atoms and molecules. http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/prague.pdf http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/prague.pd... It also has some hypotheses on how God is an invitable emergence from all language, as it is the base type: > The Leiden theory explains religion as a disease of language and predicts the existence of God and other such parasitic mental constructs as artefacts of language. God is the quintessential prototype of the non-constructible set because it can mean anything. This makes God the meme almighty. And so, in that viewing, everything contains elements of religion, because religion is just some sort of super-meme, like the catch-all mail filter when things don't yet match another category ;) (sorry, just read the other post on mail)