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I find self-contradictory the idea that the pronouns have a single origin that at the same time appeared very late and propagated everywhere even in place that
by poulpy123 4y ago
I find self-contradictory the idea that the pronouns have a single origin that at the same time appeared very late and propagated everywhere even in place that have been isolated before the appearance of the pronouns.
He places also the appearance of self-awareness and fully human behavior 12000 years ago, but self-awareness exists in other animals and many human behaviors date from long before (tools: 2.5 Myr, fire: 400-1000 kyr, art: 30kyr)
I also read the article about the snake cult of consciousness that read more like an elaborated numerology than a scientific hypothesis
- dfge4a 4y agoYour comment needs to be first. The author is stretching the evidence so far here. I hope the Hacker News audience understands that this article is presenting a very fringe theory, with a lot of holes. But the similarity of pronouns across the world is still a very interesting subject to research. Johanna Nichols has done a lot of work in that area.