Like… they don’t have words for sets of common objects? They’re completely incapable of recognizing similarities/sets,...
Each object is itself a defined category, though, a scatterplot of observed information grouped together for the sake of...
well if they don’t have categorisation ‘them’ and 'us’ wouldn’t exist to them, so they wouldn’t make anything of 'us’
Could a mind understand things without being able to consider attributes of things?Recently I saw the wikipedia article...
They would still have to knock boots sometimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious
See: Borges, “Funes the Memorious” (also the Luria monograph about the mnemonist)
There’s a species in Farscape that is like this. The universal translators the show uses (translator microbes in the...