THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT LANGUAGE
AND THOUGHT ARE BOTH 
RELATED AND TRANSMITTED THROUGH
TIME. 
THAT'S WHY YOU AND I ARE
SPEAKING ONE OR ANOTHER 
VARIETY OF ENGLISH AND IN PAPUA
NEW GUINEA IF WE 
WENT TO A MOUNTAINTOP, THEY'D BE
SPEAKING A NEW GUINEA LANGUAGE. 
AND PLAINLY, THAT'S THE RESULT
OF GENERATIONS OF TRANSMISSION 
AND SLIGHT CHANGES,
MODIFICATIONS, WHICH ULTIMATELY
LEAD TO LANGUAGES THAT, TO US,
LOOK VERY DIFFERENT. 
BUT TO A MARTIAN OBSERVER
LOOKING AT HUMANS THE WAY WE 
LOOK AT OTHER SPECIES WOULD
PROBABLY SEEM LIKE MINOR 
DIALECTAL VARIANCE OF THE SAME
FUNDAMENTAL LANGUAGE. 
AS TO HOW ALL OF THIS IS RELATED
TO THOUGHT,
THAT'S AN OBSCURE PROBLEM
BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY HAVE 
VERY GOOD WAYS OF STUDYING
THOUGHT EXCEPT THROUGH THE 
AVENUE OF LANGUAGE.
SO TO TRY TO TEASE THEM APART IS
DIFFICULT, 
NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM.
THERE'S INTERESTING WORK ON IT,
BUT A DIFFICULT PROBLEM. 
HOWEVER, WHATEVER'S HAPPENING,
OUR MODES OF THOUGHT 
DIFFER TO SOME EXTENT
CULTURALLY, 
MAYBE IN WAYS CONNECTED TO THE
WAY THE LANGUAGES DIFFER.
MAYBE NOT.
BUT THERE AGAIN, FROM THE POINT
OF A MARTIAN OBSERVER, 
YOU WOULD SURELY SEE OUR MODES
OF THOUGHT AS VERY SIMILAR,
OUR MORAL CODES AS VERY SIMILAR
AND SO ON. 
