Not true. Coordinating complex tasks works better with effective communication. Teamwork mandates language.I Like Sushu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:12 pm Of course. But we don’t need this (here written stuff) to operate in the world anymore than a chimp does in order to reason and solve puzzles.
In distributed systems (herds of computers) the hardest kinds of problems to navigate around are communication failures.
So much so that there's mantra. All system failures are communication failures.
These failure modes also have a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
Functioned IN society. Can such men build A society?I Like Sushu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:12 pm In fact there is the case of ‘The Man with no Language’ who crossed a border into the US, functioned in society and earned a living; all with NO ‘language’ (born deaf and no comprehension of language until he was in his early thirties I think?)
Any instrument for self-expression. Cooking is a language. Drawing/painting is a language. Music is language.I Like Sushu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:12 pm Again, I find myself asking “what do we mean by ‘language’?” - a question that been nagging me for a long time.
Architecture is language.
Manifesting our metaphysic into the physical world is language. Creation. Without the 'ism'.