Evolution’s great mystery - Michael Corballis
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what’s in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and can be used to say an unlimited number of things. So what does language mean for humanity, and how did we come to have it? Michael Corballis investigates.
Lesson by Michael Corballis, directed by Biljana Labovic.
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"Messages are everywhere but only we have language"
- *Master Oogway*
Rest in peace
lol
I'm feeling Nostalgic just thinking about it. Brings back memories.
mmmmm. monkey
RIP
All these 7000 languages and I still can't communicate what I want
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@@keltoumnoury ok
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Take a page out of the book from Herculaneum's brothels - pictograms of positions. These were left preserved from the eruption of Pompeii. With travelers from all over in the Roman Empire, pointing at pictures is the best option.
This talks about gestural communication like it’s extinct. I think Italians would say otherwise.
Literally every decent public speaker
Grant Flippin There’s “Public Speaker level” gestures and then there’s “Italian level gestures”
@@EXOPLANETnews the real mystery is why the %&$@ you aren't stopping
@@reinatr4848 i would say "/rmurderedbywords" but i don't want people to say to me "tHiS isN't ReDdit" (which i hate it when people say that, doesn't matter if it's to me or not) so i'm gonna say ROASTED!
@Vladimir just say it in context but without the "r/".
Example: Murdered by words
That last scene is so adorable 😭
Adawwrable
Right
Reject humanity, reject misery, Join the monke.
I am look like a monkey so you love me
@@HonnePerkele honestly monke is much better, also we'd have zero carbon dioxide emissions which is great (apart from breathing ofcourse)
I always had a question: How hard it would have been the first time two people with different languages met, trying to translate a language without any Google Translator, just imagine it.
You don't need to imagine it. It has happened plenty of times in history, and usually ends in bloodshed. For example, when Icelandic vikings reached North America and encountered the indigenous people there.
I have the same question too. I just can imagine that they communicated pointing at objects and saying its name in their own language, for example. Chinese and british folks would point at a tree and say it in English and Chinese. But who knows.
@@juanjose6091 Exactly.
U could figure it out if u needed to
Theres a old video of a guy making first contact with a tribe and you can watch as he spends weeks learning their primitive language
I recently bought a book called The Unfolding of Language, and it talks all about this but in a much longer and extended form. It's really interesting and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.
The last question, “does humanity shape language or is it language that shapes humanity?”, was a question given to us before for a homework for oral communication and as i remember, the prof told us that it works both ways. I think he said that as humanity evolves, so is language, like adding more diff. contexts for a single word, then also language is one of the factors that pushes humanity to evolve but i cant remember well. It was years ago.
If you watch "the arrival", you'll know the answer.
1:50
"Yesterday i tried a new recipe but it didn't work out"
"No worries"
0:43
"Can you go get some cherries from the market today"
"I thought we were having cactus juice."
"No, my fingers got pricked by them."
I have just read an article in a National Geographic magazine where they analized different animals that has some sort of skill to communicate abstract thoughts. There is the case of Alex, a parrot which was able say the shape and color of objects that were near him.
Also he kind of expressed emotions like jealousy and anger.
I think we have underrated animals' capacity of communication and just don't want to accept they have their own languages and feelings.
@@ineptireplica1548 yeah, it could be kinda perturbing if you eat something that used to "love".
Are... are you a vegan🥶??
@@DanielW607 no, i'm not. I just think animals deserve respect, nevertheless, we need them to survive.
Do you by any chance have a link to this article?
@@Haridnar I don't have it but if it helps you, the magazine is the March 2008 edition.
Languages are fascinating! I often wonder how we could develop such complex systems as grammar, syntax, etc! And how different languages can emerge!
Humans are truly a privileged species
The systems you're talking about are just rules to promote clarity and avoid misunderstanding. Abstract concepts like time need special words for the past, present and future. I don't think it was a question so much of how we could develop such complex systems, but of why they were needed.
Fascinating interpretation on language, very informative
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"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace"
-Buddha
ALLAH "GOD"
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The sound effect used for the strings of language was amazing
It made me want to discover it's deepest secrets and understand it's very core
Do we even know the vocal tracts of Denisovans? I thought we really only had a few bone fragments of that lineage.
Do not underestimate Bone fragments. A large number of inferences can be found from Bone Fragments. Even little pieces of bone can sing a song with the right instruments. Like someone once said - "There are no secrets after death. Your bones tell all."
Sass Hole We have the genome. Comparisons can be made with other genomes to determine physical properties.
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I remember there was a chimpanzee that was taught sign language. She was able to communicate with her handlers even to the point where she could put words together. It was revealed that this had to happen early in the chimp's development for it to work; on an interesting note the chimp later taught her babies sign language.
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I think that our ancestors made certain sounds while making a gesture, and then other ancestors would make that same sound while making the same gesture. This would go on for many gestures, untill we got a language
I love the music at 1:54 used to indicated speech!
love your animations
언어의 대한 진화에 대해서 배워보는 시간이 되었습니다. 또 언어의 중요성에 대해서도 다시 한번 생각해보는 시간이 되었습니다. 정말 재미있는 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.
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What a great video!
Concepts are important. Definitions of words opens up the mind to new understanding of concepts. How to express things is an art.
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"Can you solve the Evolution's Mystery riddle?"
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@@SatishSharma-nm4pg evolution didn't happen, mystery solved !
@@studygodsword5937 says the brainwashed creationist
@@willymw78 It's clear you're the brainwashed one !
@@willymw78 Nice try, cro-magnon.
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Evolution isn't real
@@cc.tmh3017 that's true..
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts
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So you post here also... That means you're an Indian and by reading your comments on Akash Banarjee's channel I come to this conclusion that you're neither an leftist nor right wing person... But a wise person.
the useless channel ok
@Kurt E. Clothier @Kurt E. Clothier Check the first second of this video again, Nina George is on similar track with Watts. Words often shape you. Before you point out about any possible shortcomings of one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and who managed to understand and join Eastern & Western mind/culture together, you should be more humble and state your concerns in more opened manner. Watts stated a correct fact: very often (almost always) we think in words and we realise this truth on rare occasions, we think with language inside our heads. Those words are not yours for sure, they were given to you by somebody else who is most definitely not you (parents, teachers, friends, other people, books...) and you accepted them as yours, but that will never make them yours like the deep feeling of hunger is yours. Let me try to explain to you little bit better what is real meaning which Watts and Nina stated here, your feeling of hunger is something distinct only for you and your feeling of hunger is not the same as mine, nor anybody else's, but we all call it "hungry". Words are the best tool to explain reality (internal and external) that we possess now, but they are not ours, nor they are the same as our thoughts, feelings, etc. That is why A.Watts stated that we SELDOM realise this, you think with your words, with language, you cannot think at all without speaking to yourself simultaneously (right now in English). Your thoughts are becoming language and it is not yours for sure. Why seldom then, why not always you might ask now? Well, there are few ways to "think" and "feel" without language, but it requires meditation and practice for one example, or some other things which we know can alter your conciousness, and those things are far away from majority of people who simply have no choice but to always think and feel by translating their thoughts and feelings into language inside their heads. There are moments in life where pure unconscious mind or pure reflex takes over, but that happens seldom, so we are all almost always speaking to ourselves in language which is not ours and which removes us one step away from reality. It enables us expression, society and many different things, sure, but it also shapes us back because of that. So, try to think about your hunger, try to feel it without the word HUNGER in your head, you will see it is impossible (most probably you are not a Buddhist monk with 10+ years of experience). That makes your thought and your feeling not yours, since all you do is translate your inner workings with language. To really feel and think your own inner workings you must use your own initial tools, and language is most definitely not yours no matter how much intuition says to you that it is, you simply took somebody elses concepts from very early childhood and now it feels like when you state inside 'I am hungry' that is my own hunger for sure...well, sorry, but it is most definitely not. Feeling is, but you cannot express it without language. Once again, it is almost impossible to think and feel without words, that is for sure.
Now that’s a nutshell I want to hear !
I like your vids it gets rid of my insomnia im already sleepy
In a parallel universe,humans speak Minecraft Enchantment Table
What a utopia
XD
Xd
Many linguists believe all human languages derived from a single tongue spoken in East Africa around 50,000 years ago. They've found clues scattered throughout the vocabularies and grammars of the world as to how that original "proto-human language" might have sounded.👍
Not East Africa the Middle East and East Africa
Maybe, but "proto-world" is currently in the realm of fringe linguistics as far as I know. Not sure though. We know there was P.I.E, but beyond that we don't know alot
All the human languages originated from sanskrit,
It is said to be the mother language to all the other languages
It was used in the middle east asia
Mostly india
Proud to be an indian
@@bardum.4458 No, they didn't.
@@vikrantsingh2348 True. I'm not sure on the current linguistic playing field, but I think that the oldest, most reconstructed language we know is P.I.E (I.e we don't know what proto world would be like yet). That's my limited knowledge though, I'm not an expert lol.
We are so complex. I wish we could cultivate a passion to discover more of ourselves on this and the next generations to come.
Great animation
Evolution's greatest mystery is how so many people can't accept it.
To everyone reading this, be safe, be positive and the world is yours:)
thankyou stranger...i am homeless
that was a joke lol htanks for good wishes tho :)
Gotta be negative in these times tho
Is that what Tony did ?
Not build his criminal empire and achieve ill gotten gains in a montage with iconic music, slowly corrupting him and turning him into a tyrant ?
He was just positive ?
No.
Your voice is so hypnotizing 😅
Nice animation 💯
This bonobo will request their food faster in Mcdonald's faster than me
I find language quite a bit less mystic than most people make it. You just associate words/labels/sounds/signs with sensory inputs and start agreeing with people around you on the labels/sounds! After a while of this you have a primitive but functional langauge. And theres no denying that a language, no matter how primitive, provides an evolutionary advantage!
I think there is an interesting aspect on the part about „agreeing with others around you“. If several individuals had different assignments of gestures/ sounds to certain „words“ - how exactly did they agree on that? Was one version maybe advantageous to others and other individuals „naturally“ adopted it by intuition? Was there a Social hierarchy at Place already and the more subversive ones adopted the gestures of the more dominant ones?
I think this is quite interesting.
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Agreed. Language seems inevitable when you consider the increased intelligence and the fact that we a social species.
Fantastic
Hey TED-ED, for ted-ed videos, can you add articles to each of your upcoming videos. I would like to explore a topic much more deeply and learn more.
Hi there Alessandro! For each video we publish, there's an accompanying lesson to go along with it on ed.ted.com (the link to this page is in each video's description). This includes a Dig Deeper section with links to articles and resources on the topic for you to learn more! Here's the link to this video's lesson: bit.ly/EvoLangDigDeeper Hope this helps!
Plot twist: all other animals have a greater communication reality through telethapy, so the jokes is on us.
Early men did use some vocals like OUCH, YEOUCH, GNEURSHK
this...puts a smile on my face :)
Nice video
Love those animations on the chimp
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The year is 5050. The monkey to a possible future animal in place of humans: "Hope you're doing well mate. Just had to charge my iPhone infinity."
We acquired the capacity for language as soon as we were popped into existence.
yes, magic seems logical answer
That's what happened: magic. The genius that created humans has an IQ of about 1,000,000,000.
@@vesuvandoppelganger so how much smarter is genius that created genius that created humans?
How do you know that the genius was created?
@@vesuvandoppelganger How do you know that "genius" exists?
How do you know that we were "popped into existence"?
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If there were no language, there would've been no Binod.
I am Binod. You are Binod. We are all Binod.
Binod
Yes my brother 🗿
Binod
1:51 wow, this is serbian
I ti si primetio
@@mrwraith1732 da naravno
I meni nije promaklo
Друга реченица: НЕМА ВЕЗЕ :)
@@slobodanvukajlovic2211 На почетку каже "Јуче сам пробала нови рецепт али ми нажалост није успело". In the beginning is says "I tried a new recipe yesterday, but unfortunately it turned out bad." and he said "Never mind".
The Bonobos hands look so much like my own it is amazing to me. Clearly we are close relatives to them I have never seen on in person but would love to look into their eyes. Convinced they know what early humans knew. A window into our past.
Can you do a video about ancient mesoptainian religions
I'm just here to laugh at the creationists. 😀
1:43 Only humans have language? Laughs in Dolphin 🐬.
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Evolution's great mystery:
Why do karens exist???
There's a language between me and my friends
Whenever in exam we look at each other,
we just understand that they are in need of help. .
The only language that science has not yet understood is the language used during exams by the students to help each other 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Time is so precious and it's one of the main reasons of everything we are experiencing right now.
Knowing that we have these kind of consciousness also developed by time.
@Kurt E. Clothier it's a shame that you don't understand the meaning of what I said there. Bless you. :)
@Kurt E. Clothier as per my understanding, because of time in this universe the evolution happened.
And I'd like to hear your opinion on what was the proper grammar I should write. I will truly appreciate the feedback on this. :)
The much more important aspect is, that through speech you were able to have abstract thoughts, which is mostly the voice in our head.
I really thought about this. How did people in the past communicate? I mean, how did Japan communicate with Germany during the world war? How did the British conquered and made business to almost any country? Surely they had different currency for stuff.
With multi-lingual translators. You’re imagining a separate people with closed off cultures like aliens landing on another planet, but countries don’t really exist with these absolute borders. People and ideas migrate. Europeans have been visiting Japan since the 1500s.
cavemens talking to each other be like:
caveman 1: Oga?
caveman 2: oga oga.
caveman 3: ooga, oga oga. boga oga.
caveman 1:oooogaa
caveman 2: boga boga oga oga
Flogang Ouhh
Ted-ed found it funny
1:49-2:00 I like it.
En que momentos o situaciones se requirió de otras formas de comunicación con las que poder expresar algo que no era posible por medio de los simples sonidos y o gestos...
And what about dolphins? they communicate in more developed way than languages...
One of the first!
Me too
I wanted to hear more about Kanzi though :T
Is very good animation
So who was the first guy to make a swear word?
@Canis Africanis OOG!!
Human 1: yo, got stick
Human 2: yeah bro
Human 1: *Did you just understand me?*
Terence McKenna had a quite interesting idea in how language did start to evolve.
_The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language_
The lesson creator is Michael Coballis of the book The Recursive Mind.
What language does a goose speak?
Portugeese
Haha nice
-_-
@@harshvardhanwagare5663 -_-
Using symbols to communicate? Sound kinda like emojis
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Caught me off guard, didn't expect to see my language on 1:50 😂