භාෂාවට පෙර අපි සිතුවාද?

 

I have published the first episode of a new Sinhala series investigating the origins of human cognition from the perspectives of evolutionary psychology, philosophy, AI, and psychoanalysis.

One of the central ideas discussed is that knowledge does not necessarily require language.

Evolution accumulated successful behavioural solutions over millions of years and embodied them within DNA. Instincts are not merely behaviours; they represent information preserved through natural selection, allowing organisms to respond adaptively without explicit reasoning or symbolic communication.

This provides an interesting analogy with modern Large Language Models. While the mechanisms are fundamentally different, both DNA and LLMs embody information acquired through extensive interaction with their respective environments. One preserves biological adaptations across generations; the other preserves statistical patterns extracted from language. Neither relies on conscious understanding, yet both demonstrate how knowledge can be embodied rather than explicitly represented.

The episode uses this analogy as a starting point for a broader investigation into what language added to cognition, and why its emergence transformed the architecture of the human mind.

The presentation is in Sinhala, with English metadata to make the topic accessible to a wider audience.

🎥 Watch here:
https://youtu.be/getnWFKgPnM

I look forward to constructive discussion with colleagues and researchers interested in artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.