Now, I think you are trying to translate the effectivity of English language back to your ideology. Computational mechanics theory and statistical analysis are far better and more reliable options.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @demograms and
you'll do anything for another hellthread, right? granted: how do those things explain the spread of English better than an adaptive model?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NegarestaniReza and
Languages are just a stratum of a multi scalar system. You can't just imagine languages in a neutral background where they'll be freely circulated and selected. Or would you make the British Empire & American imperialism into a mere function of the spread of English?
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Replying to @demograms @NegarestaniReza and
sure, it's actually a part of the spread of cultures - the adaptive model becomes even more relevant then.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NegarestaniReza and
Spread of cultures is a very cute way to put it.
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Replying to @demograms @cyborg_nomade and
It's not like everyone said "wow, Anglo culture, I feel like this really suits my needs".
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Replying to @demograms @NegarestaniReza and
again, sure, it's not like consent is the rule of nature.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NegarestaniReza and
Nothing is the rule of nature. Culture spread is different from war, which is different from trade, which is different from colonialism. You have to analyse different things through different logics.
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Replying to @demograms @NegarestaniReza and
you really don't think there's an underlying Darwinian dynamic to all of those?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @demograms and
The underlying law doesn't translate into how systems behave as they do. This is not an epistemic quandary, like as if we could only discover what drives the universe and we could explain everything away. That's just a metaphysical model that has no role in sciences.
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The notion of law is misunderstood here.
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