ishalon

I don't have the time to make this long and 'interesting' but

Language is not an advantage of humans. It slows down learning, complicates facts, arguments and communication. Creation/Evolution debates would be long over if people had a method of transferring thoughts instead of misunderstanding misquoting misreading and misrepresenting each other.

If you could absorb thoughts instead of complicating them with language, you could learn much closer to your intellectual capacity than with language.

Language is also a barrier between cultures: if the world didn't have hundreds of languages we would not create new and pointless fields of learning required only in order to communicate.

Without language, we would not get very far, but with something better, we would get much farther.

Philosoft

Hmm. Transferring thoughts. Why didn't I think of that?

Mageth

Language has enabled humans to journey into regions of abstraction/abstract thought that are not available to our more limited cousins.

How could we transfer thoughts without some kind of common "language" to communicate and understand them with?

Contrary to being a hindrance, language enables, accelerates, and preserves learning. Without language, we (like chimps) would not have a huge volume of written history from which to draw, and would not have a vehicle to pass what we learn, in every subject, down to following generations.

The problem with a plurality of languages is not that they are languages but that there are more than one.

Kachana

Isn't that rather like saying 'without legs, we wouldn't get very far, but with the ability to teleport vast distances we'd get much farther'? i.e. obviously given any human ability one can imagine it being better, I don't see the point here?

owleye

ishalon....

It seems to me that language has two major functions: (1) to communicate thoughts with others; and (2) to express our thoughts. What gives you reason to believe this is not the case?

owleye

ishalon

and its now limiting us, i didnt do a good job writing it out

If i knew i would be rich

Contrary to being a hindrance, language enables, accelerates, and preserves learning. Without language, we (like chimps) would not have a huge volume of written history from which to draw, and would not have a vehicle to pass what we learn, in every subject, down to following generations.
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what if we were almost born with it?
very true

ishalon

hmm... good idea...

the point is that language is limiting us

ishalon

i didn't say i believed it wasnt

ishalon

because it is my own original idea thought of by myself. you are awed by my intellect and originality and have never seen anything remotely connected to telepathy

phaedrus

Now could you suggest any "medium" which could replace language as a tool for communication and sharing? In any communication, there is a sender and reciever, how do you intend both of them to share a common framework (other than language or a common code) so that the transfer of thoughts takes place seamlessly without any transmission loss or loss due to individual perception? Are you suggesting the whole human race become one homogeneous mass ?