Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication
Aksioma Project Space•Sep 17, 2025 — Oct 24, 2025
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The emergence of linguistic form remains largely unknown. As the origins of language (1) reach beyond reliable traces or documentation, and as their transparency—or accessibility to analysis—is bound up with the emergence of words themselves, with language that resembles our own enough to allow meaningful comparison, any attempt to construct a definitive timeline or account of its development beyond this condition of comparability is necessarily considered speculative. Historical linguists have approached this question along several lines:
• anatomical – positing the necessary development of the brain to provide the capacities required for language (Homo erectus, ca. 1.5 million years ago)
• technological – positing critical innovations, such as tool-making (from early stone tools ca. 1.5 million years ago to watercraft ca. 40,000 years ago), whose creation and use could necessitate verbal communication, and
• cultural – positing signs of symbolic expression (ostrich eggshell beads, ca.…
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Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication
Aksioma Project Space•Sep 17, 2025 — Oct 24, 2025
Press Release
The emergence of linguistic form remains largely unknown. As the origins of language (1) reach beyond reliable traces or documentation, and as their transparency—or accessibility to analysis—is bound up with the emergence of words themselves, with language that resembles our own enough to allow meaningful comparison, any attempt to construct a definitive timeline or account of its development beyond this condition of comparability is necessarily considered speculative. Historical linguists have approached this question along several lines:
• anatomical – positing the necessary development of the brain to provide the capacities required for language (Homo erectus, ca. 1.5 million years ago)
• technological – positing critical innovations, such as tool-making (from early stone tools ca. 1.5 million years ago to watercraft ca. 40,000 years ago), whose creation and use could necessitate verbal communication, and
• cultural – positing signs of symbolic expression (ostrich eggshell beads, ca.…
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