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Terence McKenna makes the argument that spoken language is a form of bandwidth-limited telepathy in which thoughts are processed by a dictionary, encoded into v
by buildsjets 1y ago
Terence McKenna makes the argument that spoken language is a form of bandwidth-limited telepathy in which thoughts are processed by a dictionary, encoded into variations of strength of an acoustical pressure wave which transmitted by mechanical means, detected at a distance, and re-encoded to be compared against the dictionary of a second user.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPBGiHGmYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPBGiHGmYI
- Mallowram 1y agoWhile McKenna is interesting, it's still metaphysical and probably nonsense. If you stick to hard science, aphasia studies reveal language and thought have nothing to do with one another, which means language is arbitrary gibberish that predominantly encodes status, dominance, control, mate-selection, land acquisition etc. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27096882/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27096882/