The talk is here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/678729516
How do you learn how to make fire without language?
Sympathy neurons, imitation, demonstration
Limited by environments → what if it's raining that day?
Language gets around this ^
But language is not supreme! You want both!
We should not presume video games are the best thing. Rather that they should be used in fusion with old technologies.
are entertaining and educational.
Stories are good at communicating things that mimicry cannot.
Stories can compress knowledge that would be burdensome to communicate through demonstration-alone.
Stories are often used for moral tales and parables. In a single human life you can only experiience so much morality through direct experience, but through stories you can get to moral maturity faster.
Improves accuracy of transmission and specificity.
Written law adds trust and objectivity to the "idea of the law"
The purpose of pointing out these well-known and commonplace consequences of technologies like writing, is to prepare you for the idea that games, being a new thing, will change how we communicate.
Communicate suff like math that are hard to grasp.