Jim Mason
Sep 13, 2021

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Thanks, Samantha. I appreciate your concepts. I think the main difference between us humans and other animals is our language ability, and I believe that our language ability is a product of evolution. As I have written elsewhere, it is both our strength and our curse. It enables us to share thoughts as no other animals can, but it requires us to reduce our thoughts to discrete, finite terms which can be misunderstood. Its power also gives us a dangerous sense of self-importance, which may ultimately make us self-destructive.

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Jim Mason
Jim Mason

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