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Many of those powers were about surpassing human difference, so I would guess towards more of that:
But—don't you want the language you speak to your friends to be the same as the language you use to organize your own thoughts? How can you accept a wall between the world you see, and the world you're allowed to talk about? Doesn't your soul die a little bit?
I am not quite sure such unity of language is possible.
My thoughts really aren't organized in words. (I hope to eventually write some posts about it, but:) My general understanding is that I have some underscrutinized mental activity that hosts a whole lot of models, prediction engines, and such; and that additionally there are many speech-generators that can take these wordless representations and... (read 586 more words →)
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