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The solution to this capacity constraint came in the form of a cognitive breakthrough that has allowed humans to think in a way that, most likely, no other creature on earth has ever achieved: symbolic thought. A symbol is something that has a purely arbitrary relationship to what it signifies, which can only be understood by someone who shares the same code.
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Codes break constraints With symbols
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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