How children pick up a language: new review of Wolfe (Humans)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 12:31 (2702 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: It is not just self-consciousness but consciousness itself that is unexplained. Self-consciousness is an extension of consciousness, and I do not put human language in the same category of inexplicability. Once you have enhanced consciousness, it seems to me inevitable that you should need enhanced modes of expression, since all organisms need to communicate what matters to them.

DAVID: I agree, but would include God's actions.

dhw: You include God’s actions in your explanation of every single innovation and natural wonder. That is why there seems little point in isolating human self-consciousness and language, when according to you evolutionary theory explains none of the developments from bacteria to humans. They ALL require your God's planning or intervention.

DAVID: The only way evolution could have proceeded. Chance doesn't work.

Who said chance was the only alternative to divine preprogramming and dabbling? And once again, if God specially planned every single innovation and natural wonder, there is not much point in isolating human self-consciousness and language.


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