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-errorshttps://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/Sections:IntroPolitics and rhetoric 5 minWriting and memory 26 minWorcels vs. shape rotators 34 minMathematics and language 49 minThe myth of an Ur language 52 minChomsky's universal grammar Sapir Whorf hypothesis The first kinds of words The Kekule Problem