Human Language as a Natural Artifact of Planetary-Noospheric Mind: Coevolutionary-Macromutational Reinterpretation

Roman Vasko,Yan Kapranov,Alla Korolyova,Tetiana Tolcheyeva

doi:10.34069/ai/2020.34.10.2

Abstract

The article discusses a new hypothesis of coevolutionary-macromutational origin of human language, through the prism of which this planetary-noospheric phenomenon is proposed to be considered as a natural artifact of holisticsynergetic coevolution of nature, society and culture. The following assumption has been suggested: the proposed hypothetical idea is a resonance of the former two philosophical theories: the fusion theory and the thesis theory, which were regarded by scientists either as natural or artificial (conventional / conditional) nature of human language. At the same time, they did not completely deny the origin of the human language as a result of various types of activities. The represented arguments helped to confirm the views of anthropologists, culturologists and other scholars. The creation of various artifacts (tangible and intangible) took place in all stages of evolution: geogenesis – biogenesis – psychogenesis – anthropogenesis and at a subsequent stage of Homo sapiens. However, language as the most important product of global evolutionism was formed at the stage of anthropogenesis, in particular as a corollary to the molecular mutations of human brain. The term “coevolution” has been transferred to the sphere of linguoanthropogenesis. In conjunction with the hypothesis of macromutation the natural artifact origin of human language is consistently explained under the scenario of biogenesis – sociogenesis – culturogenesis. The essence of the hypothetical result is that a qualitatively new driving force for the continuation of this scenario can be noospherogenesis, which is determined by historical and cultural development of mankind, its activities in all spheres of life and, most importantly, by the planetary high-tech mind.

Highlights

The modern conceptions of linguoanthropogenesis offer various hypotheses to get the answers to the question of the human language origin, which one way or another discuss it in terms of identifying the relationship between the triad of the following notions: “nature – society
Today the natural artifact essence of the human language is reinterpreted as a new hypothesis, the discussion around which continues and requires new scientific ideas to either confirm it to become a scientific theory, or to refute it
We should note that the coevolutionary-macromutation hypothesis of the human language origin proposes to consider this planetary-noospheric phenomenon as a natureartifact of holistic-synergetic interaction of nature, society and culture

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Introduction

The modern conceptions of linguoanthropogenesis (glottogenesis) offer various hypotheses to get the answers to the question of the human language origin, which one way or another discuss it in terms of identifying the relationship between the triad of the following notions: “nature – society – culture” In favour of the chosen vector, a somewhat new explanation (reinterpretation) of the main provisions of the theory of glottogenesis is found at the intersection of the relationship of nature and culture. It can be explained by the right thoughts of Ye. O. Belov, who writes about the bifurcation point that separates the Homo sapiens from other members of the Homo and their ancestors (Kapranov 2018; Korolyova 2018)

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