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Have you seen the movie Arrival? It’s centered on how language shapes reality/thinking.

Also, the movie was based on a short story by Ted Chiang. He has a few short story collections and I’d recommend them. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate is another one of my favorites.

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How about animal communication?

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I’m blind in one eye. The world/my sense of reality is, paradoxically, enhanced because of this fact. Perhaps because of my overemphasis on words and language. I wonder how it is, in a Saussurian sense, for entirely blind people. Or deaf people, who can’t hear language in the way we can. Interesting article. Many thanks from Oregon.

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