Phil Henshaw wrote: > So long as people > are primarily looking for the fault in other people's points of view > instead of the insight in other people's points of view we'll get the > mayhem we now have and justly deserve. > Nature must have some good a > reason for having all minds make up their own worlds, meanings and > points of view. Evolutionary advantage is one guess. Many individualized languages, i.e. models of the world, having many individualized responses may enable at least some people in a community to make it through severe adversity intact. Similarly, the community can evolve language to fit the needs of its environment. For example, in this way democracies beat theocracies when their leaders, who would very much like to define language and shape ideas for their own purposes, start pushing too many ideas that are dangerous to everyone in the group..
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