A Huge Brain!

I'm a physicist, yet I am convinced that the evolution of our language is more important than the progression of science and technology.*

Why?

Without the proper methods to communicate, it is impossible for people to effectively, quickly and deeply share their ideas and thoughts. Without rich vocabularies and very delicate grammatical structures it would be difficult for one person to pass on the right temperament of an idea, feeling or thought.

Does the correct temperament of a message count this much? Yes it does - that provides the basis for profound understanding between the halves, which opens the way to a deeper, more understanding conversation.

Is this important in the sciences? Yes, although maybe not as much as in other fields of life, but notice that mathematics and physics and so on and so forth needed to build up a distinct vocabulary and language. This is necessary for the advancement of any field.

Here's the truth: I don't think languages are very important because of what I just told you. What I think is the really amazing thing about advanced languages is that they connect us! That's the most important task that language has - to connect people.

Imagine that perfect communication exists (maybe with the help of this!).
Perfect communication means COMPLETELY understanding each other in an instant without any effort - basically you look at another person and you know everything they know - thanks to perfect communication!

What this would do is create the largest-ever brain - a brain where people are the brain cells. Just imagine how much thinking potential and creativity such a construction of humans would have! It would be quite a thing.

We are on the way to perfect communication, although we will never get there probably :) The key to this, I think, is the evolution of languages - this (with the help of information technology) will help us get closer to the "super brain state".



(What's the * at the end of the first sentence? I'm not extremely convinced that it's the most important part of development anymore. In the beginning it was obviously the most important factor (cavemen and ancient societies), but today maybe not so much.

I'm imagining the sophisticated-ness of communication as a sort of logarithmic function of time dedicated to improving communication - in other words the later we are in time, the less it matters that we are trying to make a more profound language, but still communication can become infinitely perfect if we have infinite time! So good luck with that!)