
73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
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The Power of Language
Capitalism has like heaps to answer for there, right? It serves the market for us to be nurtured into a really, really predictable set of heuristics. So I don't know if necessarily we are inherently simple. And that's life, but then on top of that, we have language which is so powerful and can be harnessed to make sentences of literally infinite complexity. We say pass the tea and we just use this repertoire. And this is good and this is how we run our lives, but yeah, but it's a really good. There's nothing more wonderful than sharing tea with a person of value. Yes. Hold on to your package. I'm just
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