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“The elaborated kinship systems of ethnographic report impose steep linguistic demands. These systems feature a small set of basic kin terms: “mother” and (typically) “father”, “husband”, “wife”.”

Book:From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language

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“Our deep-time ancestors very likely had the genetic resources needed for formal quantitative reasoning, but without the cultural invention of numerals and a umber line, those resources could not be exploited. The same may be true of language. The central role of cultural learning in the construction and transmission of language (qua social phenomenon) is enough to show that the use of language depends on cultural scaffolds, not just appropriate genetic potential.”

Language Evolution Evolutionary Psychology Homo Sapiens Human Species Ultrasociality

Book:From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language

Source: From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language

“The purpose of our sensuality is to bring back our lost unction to love. It is to teach you everything you need to know about love.”

Love Marriage Relationship Quotes Divorce Sensuality Sensual Breakup Unction

Author:Lebo Grand

“The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.”

Equilibrium Game Theory Recursion

Book:Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Source: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself inside this apple. What tranquility!”

Inspirational Poetry Recursion

Author:Henri Michaux

“Why does it disturb us that the map be included in the map and the thousand and one nights in the book of the Thousand and One Nights? Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the Quixote and Hamlet a spectator of Hamlet? I believe I have found the reason: these inversions suggest that if the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious. In 1833, Carlyle observed that the history of the universe is an infinite sacred book that all men write and read and try to understand, and in which they are also written.”

Consciousness Mysticism Recursion Philisophy

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Running away, then returning. My present was feeding on my past, and my future was waiting for the recursive loop to complete.”

Recursion

Book:Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“This connection of all created things with every single one of them and their adaptation to every single one, as well as the connection and adaptation of every single thing to all others, has the result that every single substance stands in relations which express all the others. Whence every single substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.”

Recursion Monadology Self Similarity

Book:Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays

Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays

“If I have to rate different mathematical concept according to its simplicity & practical applicability, then I will give '9 out of 10 rating' to 'Recursion / recurrence relation'. 90 % of my mathematical work involve this single principle.”

Recursion

Author:Mathematician Vitthal Jadhav

“I love you,” said Bekka. “I know,” I said. “I know you know,” she said. “But I didn’t know that you knew I knew you knew. And now I do.”

Love Recursion

Book:It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

Source: It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

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