A conversation on language from many years ago between me and @newthinkingallowed. Me: I think it's basically the machinery of the mind. It's the ability to have thoughts that's independent of language. But language is obviously very important to supplying the actual content of the thoughts, I think. Jeffrey Mishlove: Now, some cultures, particularly in Asia, have developed, let's say, a mystical tradition that we haven't had with nearly as much depth in the West. And I think that's reflected in
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Part 2 of my conversation on the Think Fast Talk Smart podcast. Full episode: https://fastersmarter.io/231-secret-signals-why-we-rarely-say-exactly-what-we-mean/ "The thing of swearing does is it elicits an involuntary emotional reaction. Your primitive part of your brain, maybe your amygdala, just gets pinged, usually with some, not just an offensive thought, excretion, feces, urine, cuckoldry, copulation, the disease, death, misfortune. Those are the subject matter of swearing across languages
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