@KevinSimler just finished the Jean Louis Desalles - phenomenal read. Great recommendation.
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awesome, glad you liked it! what were your major takeaways?
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I was inclined to see things in terms of symmetrical cooperation previously
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Yeah. I read the book 1.5 yrs ago, and now it all seems obvious: of course talking is asymmetrical.
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But at the time, it completely blew my mind. I wonder why it was so hard to see, before.
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I finished it ~ 2 weeks ago - but it has been on my mind ever since. Have flicked through repeatedly. I think part of the
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breakthrough (in my mind) is not seeing language as an emergent phenomenon but as something with a strong selection
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pressure for. It makes much more sense when considering the movement from the common ancestor
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Right. Not just an automatic byproduct of intelligence. I also liked the 2-hop progression: nothing —> protolanguage —> full syntax
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