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* Communications are therefore necessarily passive and unconscious prior to first contact or what would properly be called first realization of contact. | * Communications are therefore necessarily passive and unconscious prior to first contact or what would properly be called first realization of contact. | ||
* The point at which a local culture becomes aware of the cosmopolitan culture is associated with the serendipitous event of the realization by one or more individuals followed by the social construction of a language by which general communications can take place. The singularity or omega point of cultural development is associated with this event which of course is more of a process, except for whatever event makes it a reality in the consciousness of a local culture. | * The point at which a local culture becomes aware of the cosmopolitan culture is associated with the serendipitous event of the realization by one or more individuals followed by the social construction of a language by which general communications can take place. The singularity or omega point of cultural development is associated with this event which of course is more of a process, except for whatever event makes it a reality in the consciousness of a local culture. | ||
* The language developed is species specific but is hypothetically already a (future) dialect of the cosmopolitan interlingua. Normally local cultures would be consciously constructing it with this in mind. | * The language developed is species specific but is hypothetically already a (future) dialect of the cosmopolitan interlingua. Normally local cultures would be consciously constructing it with this in mind as well as the unification of their various primitive and mutually unintelligible pre-contact langs. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |