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259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

The Michael Shermer Show

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Why Do You Need Language?

We need language to become, first and foremost, menhe languished, interact with other human beings. Language is the physical connectivity of our brains to other brains. It took time for us to develop words for thinking, feeling. The whole notion of an inner life and consciousness and unconsciousness was with freud. Before freud there wasn't really any sense that there was an inner will delve into so just these things we think about as our inner world a shan't i have and built a build out of language?

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