Juan Carlos Madrid Vites

Evolution's Morse Code: Language, the cost of the uncollapsed, and the one distinction it never had to encode

Biology evolved to identify, not to deliberate: identification is cheap and terminates, while processing is expensive and does not. Language broke that economy by granting access to states that have not resolved — the future, the absent, the counterfactual, the self as a third-pe...

Evolution's Morse Code: Language, the cost of the uncollapsed, and the one distinction it never had to encode

Biology evolved to identify, not to deliberate: identification is cheap and terminates, while processing is expensive and does not. Language broke that economy by granting access to states that have not resolved — the future, the absent, the counterfactual, the self as a third-pe...