Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
Very Bad Wizards
The Intersection of the Unconscious Mind and Language
There are hardcore language people who think that all of the thinking that makes us like characteristically human is sort of because of language. But then there are some people who think, look, we symbolically represent things with no need for language. And I think that McCarthy is coming at this by saying, obviously, every other animal on earth doesn't have language. So what is what is going on with our reliance on language?
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