Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago

Phys.org ^ | Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago

[BenLurkin]

Is it wrong to lack faith in “an evolutionary mathematical model”

[ecomcon]

One thing for sure; none of it is true.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[Red Badger]

I don’t read ‘recursive’......................

[Fedora]

An evolutionary mathematical model developed by a neuroscientist trying to prove his own theory in the absence of any empirical evidence—how could you doubt that?

[SunkenCiv]

Recursive, foiled again! /rimshot

[Yardstick]

You must not’ve been criticized enough during your critical period.

[Red Badger]

Ever notice that ancient scripts had no cursive counterparts.....................

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Hieroglyphs were used for formal stuff, but the Egyptians also had hieratic and demotic and were comfortable using cuneiform for diplomatic correspondence.

[null and void]

I think cuneiform tried to wedge cursive in...

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Flexible object combination and nesting (otherwise known as recursion) are characteristic features of all human languages.

If you're interested in recursion, I invite you to read anything by Edgar Allen Poe. He was a master of 'flexible object combination and nesting' - so much so that I have to really concentrate to comprehend his works.

[Red Badger]

I read somewhere that cursive was invented as a protest against the PRINTING PRESS!..................🤔

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I think cuneiform tried to wedge cursive in...

When I drink, I don't slur my words - I'm just speaking in cursive...

[Red Badger]

I see what you did there!...............

[null and void]

I do that when I’m really angry...

[SunkenCiv]

Moveable type is the foundation of white privilege!!!

[catnipman]

“I don’t read ‘recursive’.”

yeah, but can you WRITE recursive? that is the question ...

[Grampa Dave]

So the good Dr. Dr. Vyshedskiy, stepped into his time machine and went back 70,000 years to validate this theory.

We have so much bad science based on half A$$ed assumptions with zero validity.

[sparklite2]

I found Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind much more interesting.

"When Julian Jaynes...speculates that until late in the second millennium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis through all the corroborative evidence..."

- John Updike, in The New Yorker