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by kjkjadksj 885 days ago
Todays babies rapidly grow their brain while learning new languages. Kids who wind up feral for whatever reason have severe cognitive issues from a lack of learning language at a critical age.

It makes you wonder how this brittle system got its start. Considering everyone today needs this language kick start induced by cultural practice, maybe the initial kick was also some cultural practice that also introduced new ideas where there wouldn’t be otherwise. Maybe that practice at one time was a shamanic like experience considering the proliferation of these practices in the most basal religions we have around the world. Its really hard to say what came first, the language or cultural practices such as ritualized drug taking, considering what archaeological evidence we have seems to suggest these things were happening at the same time.