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How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
How do animals know migration routes they have never individually experienced before? How does a woman intuitively recover a weaving technique that disappeared over a century ago? How do ideas and solutions appear to us in our sleep?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Language is humanity’s superpower. Without it, culture, cultural evolution, global cooperation, and the accumulation of knowledge across generations would be impossible. Through linguistic offshoots, such as writing, we are able to practice a unique phenomenon: exbodiment , in which byproducts of our cognition can be captured, stored, shared, and p... See more