I'm watching the new Avatar and I'm consistently weirded out about the Kantian questions of the panpsychism. How do the humans and the animals have the capacity to share a grammar? What does that indicate about the independence of cognitive structures from physiology?
@cosmiccitizen Not sure if Kantian but humans and animals are if nothing else awesome sensor arrays, so frequencies and amplitudes could point to a shared grammar. Language optional.
@tootkoTootarov Sorry for being a weirdo and thinking out loud. As you can tell, I just like this stuff. So there's like, the potential that cognitive structures are real, right? That's a really good explanation for how grammars operate in predictable ways. And if those structures aren't rooted in biology, then metaphysics gets a lot more spicy again.
@cosmiccitizen There is nothing wrong with being a weirdo, and I think for a fictional work to assume a shared grammar could exist between creatures with partially shared sensoria is not altogether far-fetched, inasmuch as other creatures make sense of the world on different wavelengths to us, nor that everything without sensing shares in that same reality obscured as it may be to our senses, or to the senses of matter without any, so Shinto metaphysics might also seem relevant.