Words and communication mean so much more?

[Mad-moose]

Words and communication is the topic.

So if words never existed, would things like hunger and emotions, or even life and death exist? I mean without words or any type of communication would these things exist?

Post what you think

I think that they wouldnt..but i was puzzled at the question, so really think about it.

 

[Shredderbeam]

Why would the nonexistence of human vocabulary prevent people from dying, or feeling emotions?

 

[dpunk]

Everything would still happen. Communication is just how we describe what happens.

 

[Mad-moose]

dying would exist but wo;uld emotions really exist?

 

[ErowidLover]

Well, the majority of the way in which human beings express themselves emotionally and all that happy crap is through body language. Look it up sometime, it's rather interesting. -Communication doesn't rely merely on words...

 

[Shredderbeam]

dying would exist but wo;uld emotions really exist?

Emotions are chemicals reacting in our brain...why wouldn't they exist?

 

[Mad-moose]

because our brains wouldnt know what they are!

 

[1337_Byte]

Just because you don't know what dying is...doesn't mean you're going to not die.

 

[Immortality]

Well emotion, death, and whatever would still exist, but in a much lesser form. Words are really just emphasis on all of these.

 

[Shredderbeam]

because our brains wouldnt know what they are!

I see what you mean, but that which we cannot describe still exists.

For example, if I don't know how to describe my anger, that does not make me placid and calm.

 

[nichlos1]

if words didn't exsist we would be no where near developed as we are now because we wouldn't be able to convey ideas

 

[Xtreme Geek]

May it be reminded that animals don't have a language to our knowledge but they still live and die

 

[stefan1596]

May it be reminded that animals don't have a language to our knowledge but they still live and die

Animals DO have their own language, it's just we can't till now understand it. The life and the death would exist, but now, instead of being in front of our PC-s, we would be killing animals to feed ourselves and we would live in caverns etc. I don't want even to imagine how this would be...