Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is Silence the Most Dignified Escape Out of Language?
i'm going to argue for a sort of position of ambiguity, because there are so many unknowns in what we're discussing. I mean, we can't have a control on this expant. We can't clone ourselves at birth and then induct one version of ourselves into the system of language. And i also think there's a kind of a sort of intangibility to conscious experience that language can't ever quite reach. An, as stevenson said, there's more in 15 minutes of consciousness than all of shakespeare can express.
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