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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Evolution of Language and Foresight

Tool use and language probably co-evolve in some very fundamental ways. As you become increasingly reliant on tools, it also becomes important to be able to pass those tools to other people. And so teaching is actually really fundamentally reliant on foresight as well. It just seems like there's a very natural opportunity at least for co-evolution between language and foresight.

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