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by slothtrop 1209 days ago
You think language would spontaneously evolve without a disposition to socialize a-priori? That doesn't make any sense.
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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.