John wrote:
>>Language in general however has obviously been hardwired into us >> long
>>before we were rats scurrying over dinosaur footprints.
>
>No much language in the Mesozoic... I would suggest that a little
>genetics and evolutionary theory could do you some good here Glen.
Where do you come up with these things. You were so good with the hive
mentality topic but something has gone terribly wrong.
I would prescribe something for you but I left my virtual medical bag
somewhere on the net. If you've misread, which could be quite likely at this
point based on the previous four mistakes, I would re-read the above
statement understanding that I mean GENERAL language (vocal, physical,
chemical) and not just "human" vocal language that employs phonemes and
grammar like Swahili does.
I don't think we need genetic theory to help us figure out basic
common-sense truthes like the fact that all animals have capacity for some
language or another, including my dog or even the ameoba crawling on my
computer. If dogs didn't have this language capacity, they would never have
been domesticated at all since they would be useless to humans and to their
own preservation.
Even your prescious ants who spray their own chemicals everywhere and who
are magically cooperating together as one unit <- as you have already stated
yourself, have their version of language. This cooperation DEMANDS the
existence of a language, but insects are pretty far from the ape tree,
testifying to language's ancient ancestry... IN A GENERAL SENSE. There were
insects in the Mesozoic, John, and thus there was language. You're being
purely argumentative.
Get out once in a while. It's not healthy to keep cooped up in the stale air
of a building for long periods of time. You should get a carbon monoxide
detector put in.
- gLeN
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