2 Minute Hate

I am joined by longtime mutual @zermatist to discuss his essay "Two Longstanding Metaphysical Errors in Explaining the Origin Of Language." We also discuss Cormac McCarthy's essay on language and consciousness "the Kekule Problem." https://zermatist.substack.com/p/two-longstanding-metaphysical-errors https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/ Sections: Intro Politics and rhetoric 5 min Writing and memory 26 min Worcels vs. shape rotators 34 min Mathematics and language 49 min The myth of an Ur language 52 min Chomsky's universal grammar 1:07 Sapir Whorf hypothesis 1:28 The first kinds of words 1:49 The Kekule Problem 2:00