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Re:A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we c... by CuriouslyC on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:29AM (#17514248)
How is a molecule different from a word? How is a spatial and temporal sequence of molecules different from a sentence?

I think language, like consciousness, is one of those things that a lot of people have a chauvinistic definition for...

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Re:A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we c... by balt_s on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:53AM (#17514538)
This has been posted here before, but your comment put me in mind of http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html. Might be worth a quick read.
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