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Human beings have two rather divergent capabilities that give us amazing survival advantages. On the one hand, we have the capability to develop plans and

goals to establish them, to maintain them, to edit them and to communicate them

very concisely using language.

And so language is a wonderful tool that pushes us as a species to

accumulate, to build to create

to think in terms of the future

to think in terms of the future.

And so that's one significant survival advantage

that we can maintain a sense of a history and a sense of progress using the language skills that we have and we

can coordinate activities so elegantly with that.

And then on the other side largely due to right brain capabilities,

we also, as a species, bond as well as any other species can bond, we can establish relationships,

alliances, communities, collectives, gatherings, tribes.

You can tell by how many different words we have for it, how many different ways we can connect and sustain those connections.

And those connections are largely solidified not by language or by ideas but by the expression

and the feeling of emotions, right hemispheric messaging is primarily somatic and emotional

and our emotions are would guide us to get our needs met in relational lives.

Now there's two kinds of connections that humans have.

One could be lumped under the vague heading

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