On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:33 AM Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> when something that would now take paragraphs to explain becomes >> intuitively obvious to everybody on a gut level people will say things in a >> language whose grammar is totally different from anything spoken by anybody >> living >> today. Early 21st-century speech will seem very archaic and naïve to >> them. >> > > > *There would be social and legal changes,* > That is the understatement of the millennium, of the last several hundred millennia actually. > > *but people's psychology, developed over at least hundreds of thousands > of years, would remain the same.* > If any being wishes to function and also to communicate after self duplication becomes commonplace then language would have to change RADICALLY because circumstances have changed to something different from anything they were even remotely like in the last few hundred thousand years since humans evolved. For an organism to remain viable radical changes in the environment require radical changes in behavior. If you're right and humans are hardwired in such a way that they are incapable of changing then the only alternative is to cease communicating, or cease functioning, or use genetic engineering to change the hardwiring. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1e---QBH8LUPPbUOGZHRP%2BAdsgQ9x8iy0kdoE4d5iEGA%40mail.gmail.com.
