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Same with our theory of mind. Our intuition about other people’s intentions and what they might be thinking evolved in a close setting. Now we misapply the same theory, worrying about what our twitter and Instagram followers must be thinking.
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Language continues to work because it follows most of the same rules of natural selection as biological evolution. This is well worth contemplating in the Meme Age that we are currently experiencing while creating.
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Wasn't it a necessity too? as people got more intelligent, creative, they had to express it in some way. Just a set of unintelligible "oogs" did not cut it. And, we've not stopped, we still like weird sounding words in pop culture despite having crazy proliferation of words!
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It shouldn’t be that surprising when we consider how consistent perceptual cognition seems to be across individuals of a species (or rather the surprise should be the low variance, at least that we can tell, of perceptual cognition).