(semi-serious but not well thought out question) If humans didn't evolve with opposable thumbs, we wouldn't have a concept of "handedness" in the traditional sense. How would we describe coordinate systems? And CP-violating decays? Is this an Anthropic bias?
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I suppose that is true, but I wonder if there is a "better" but "missing" description of nature out there that is hidden from us because we don't have "thumbs". A missing language... this idea needs work...
I think we often can have vocabulary and hence conceptual limitations if that’s what you mean
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I agree. But, if it can happen with one language (any verbal language), could it happen with another (like mathematics)? I don't mean "incompleteness," but concepts beyond the scope of mathematics... this is fuzzy.
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could change the landscape drastically, no mork and mindy, no laverne and shirley, no joanie loves chachi, and ron howards career may of ended in mayberry, none of those great movies without the fonz making happy days so popular .. aaaayyy
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This is a huge part of the book, "Babel-17", a classic if you haven't read it.
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