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So I'll be speaking to you using language because I can. This is one of these magical abilities that we humans have. We can transmit really complicated thoughts to one another. So what I'm doing right now is I'm making sounds with my mouth, as I mix hailing, I'm making tones and hisses and puffs, and those are creating air vibrations in the air. Those air vibrations are traveling to you, they're hitting your eardrums, and then your brain takes those vibrations from your eardrums and transforms them into thoughts. I hope, I hope that's happening. So because of this ability, we humans are able to transmit our ideas across vast reaches of space and time, right? We're able to transmit knowledge across minds. I can put a bizarre new idea in your mind right now. I could say, imagine a jellyfish waltzing in a library while thinking about quantum mechanics. Now, if everything has gone relatively well in your life so far, you probably haven't had that thought before. But now I've just made you thinking through language. Right now, of course, there isn't just one language in the world. There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world, and all the languages are different from one another in all kinds of ways. Some languages have different sounds, they have different vocabularies, and they also have different structures, very importantly different structures. That begs the question, does the language we speak shape the way we think? Now, this is an ancient question. People have been speculating about this question forever. Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, is said to have said, "To have a second language is to have a second soul." Strong statement that language crafts reality. But on the other hand, Shakespeare has Juliet say, "What's in a name?...