"Language is based on gift giving. This hypothesis breaks through the taboo against using nurturing (gift giving) as the model for other kinds of human activity and it has important consequences.
If language is based on nurturing, and if thinking is at least partially based on language, then thinking is at least partially based on nurturing.
However, thinking can also be based directly on non linguistic nurturing (ending and receiving messages), which is a commonplace way of describing chemical and hormonal interactions in the body viewed in terms of less intentional giving and receiving.
If we view language as gift giving transposed onto a verbal level, and if we accept the idea that it was language that made humans evolve, we could then come to the conclusion that it was the gift giving aspect of language, not just the capacity for abstraction, that caused our leap forward.
This conclusion could lead us to think that gift giving and receiving could be the way forward for humanity to evolve beyond its present dancer and distress.
Indeed we could begin to take nurturing, as nurturing IS the creative norm. And {we could then} recognize exchange as the distortion which is causing {our} de-evolution and a danger to the human species as well as all other species on the planet."
-Genevieve Vaughan
If language is based on nurturing, and if thinking is at least partially based on language, then thinking is at least partially based on nurturing.
However, thinking can also be based directly on non linguistic nurturing (ending and receiving messages), which is a commonplace way of describing chemical and hormonal interactions in the body viewed in terms of less intentional giving and receiving.
If we view language as gift giving transposed onto a verbal level, and if we accept the idea that it was language that made humans evolve, we could then come to the conclusion that it was the gift giving aspect of language, not just the capacity for abstraction, that caused our leap forward.
This conclusion could lead us to think that gift giving and receiving could be the way forward for humanity to evolve beyond its present dancer and distress.
Indeed we could begin to take nurturing, as nurturing IS the creative norm. And {we could then} recognize exchange as the distortion which is causing {our} de-evolution and a danger to the human species as well as all other species on the planet."
-Genevieve Vaughan
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