> that human language (and the patterns of thinking behind it) are somehow simpler and more “law like” in their structure than we thought.
That sounds like a lot of ideas on what makes humans special among other species and how our knowledge on that was being revised over last decades (what's common knowledge on the intelligence of, say, primates or corvids today would be unspeakable blasphemy mere 100 years ago). Various religions have instilled the idea of a human as a sacred entity that's meant to rule over everything because of how special ("made in the image of God") it is, yet we keep learning that we're much simpler than we thought over and over again. I wish for it to result in less hubris in the humanity as a whole.
That sounds like a lot of ideas on what makes humans special among other species and how our knowledge on that was being revised over last decades (what's common knowledge on the intelligence of, say, primates or corvids today would be unspeakable blasphemy mere 100 years ago). Various religions have instilled the idea of a human as a sacred entity that's meant to rule over everything because of how special ("made in the image of God") it is, yet we keep learning that we're much simpler than we thought over and over again. I wish for it to result in less hubris in the humanity as a whole.