Fungi HWIM 02 002

2022-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fungi "One hundred thousand years is pretty much an eyeblink. But two million years is not. This is, rather loosely, the length of time in which our unconscious has been organizing and directing our lives. And without language you will note. At least for all but that recent blink. How does it tell us where and when to scratch? We don’t know. We just know that it’s good at it. But the fact that the unconscious prefers avoiding verbal instructions pretty much altogether—even where they would appear to be quite useful—suggests rather strongly that it doesn’t much like language and even that it doesn’t trust it. And why is that? How about for the good and sufficient reason that it has been getting along quite well without it for a couple of million years?” McCarthy, Cormac. “The Kekulé Problem.” Nautilus . Issue 47. 20 April 2017. https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/