2 Minute Hate

I am joined by longtime mutual @zermatist to discuss his essay "Two Longstanding Metaphysical Errors in Explaining the Origin Of Language." We also discuss Cormac McCarthy's essay on language and consciousness "the Kekule Problem."

https://zermatist.substack.com/p/two-longstanding-metaphysical-errors

https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/

Sections:
Intro
Politics and rhetoric 5 min
Writing and memory 26 min
Worcels vs. shape rotators 34 min
Mathematics and language 49 min
The myth of an Ur language 52 min
Chomsky's universal grammar 1:07
Sapir Whorf hypothesis 1:28
The first kinds of words 1:49
The Kekule Problem 2:00