Darmok assisted me in re-framing and reconsidering my entire relationship with language… and the evolution of human consciousness as it relates to representation. I was not technically skillful enough to see all of the implications, but I was overwhelmed with a few of them, and they profoundly influenced my ability to relate with language and meaning in general when I was able to integrate some of the hints that this framework supplies into my own awareness of language, relation, communication and meaning.
If you have the right flavors of interest, passion, wonder and curiosity… a single story can effectively advance your intelligence… sometimes dramatically. This can as easily involve shedding light on previously experienced assets or hints… as a future in which other branches of purpose or perspective have undergone significant elaboration.
But I think the headline is misleading. This is an »ancient ability. The authors probably got the idea from »babies. Could we re-forge and re-instance it? Yes. But this is the past… is the past… ‘advanced’? Can the next phase be a previous phase? Confusing.
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