Old Words, New World. A Dangerous Mismatch - Dr. Elan Barenholtz, DemystifySci #414

Language hums along in the background, ancient and confident, telling you it knows the shape of the world. But the world keeps moving, restless and unmapped, and the old words calcify into monuments nobody remembers building. The result is that physics, democracy, and the world at large suffer stagnation. Professor Elan Barenholtz and the DemystifySci duo wade into the drift, tracing how civilizations lose their minds one redefined word at a time, and what it takes to reground thought in a reality that won't hold still. The territory changed, and now we have to find new words to follow it home.Part 1: https://youtu.be/urq7fQ_LyB0PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Implications of Language as Autopilot System00:04:23 Living Inside a Linguistic Reality00:09:38 When Words Lose Their Roots00:16:19 Language as an Evolutionary Coordination Tool00:27:06 Propaganda and the Engineering of Meaning00:35:04 From Understanding Reality to Predicting It00:40:05 The Relational Web of Language00:47:40 How Language Gets Weaponized00:57:37 The Mental Toll of Abstract Living01:04:54 Nature as Escape from Linguistic Noise01:13:13 Language as a Living System#AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Language #Consciousness #PropagandaExposed #MeaningMaking #HumanCognition #AIResearch #MentalHealth #Epistemology #Evolution #Culture #HyperOrganisms #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671