We all have a really amazing survival set of survival tools, none more unique and impressive than our capabilities at using a manipulating

language.

Pretty much the human mind, particularly which can use language and symbols gives us an incredible tool which really has resulted in our great survival advantage as a species.

If you look at the evolution of language,

it started with monkeys grooming each other.

That grooming in monkeys is not hygienic.

It's a way for them to maintain close social connections

and through touching each other and cleaning each other they basic I don't know why I did it with gestures if you don't

know what it looks like they develop the social and maintain the social ties.

But of course, if human beings which are cortex allows us to, on average, have about 150 people that we know, according to Dunbar. We'd have to spend all of our time

grooming each other if we wanted to maintain the amount of social connections that we maintain in our lives. So language took over that function.

You acquire English and we can immediately without knowing each other.

We can communicate, express emotions, express plans,

express our histories, express our goals and aspirations. It gives us a unique ability to bond on a scale that is, not only a scale scale but a complexity that's unprecedented.

However, the acquisition of language also comes with a unique weight to it. That weight is that language creates the expectation of meaning. Language, like

all symbols is a system where one sign, like a word or an image, stands for something else.

That's called a meaning system. We expect our communications, our experiences,

we expect our lives, our existence to have meaning, to amount to more than just what the experience is.

Because we exist in language,

we expect things to have or signify

or stand for something more than just the experience itself.

That's what meaning implies.

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