Definition:
Chemoreceptive language refers to the communication system used by organisms to perceive and interpret chemical signals in their environment.
Etymology:
The term “chemoreceptive” can be broken down into two parts: The prefix “chemo-” comes from the Greek word “χημεία” (khemeia), meaning “alchemy” or “chemistry.” In modern usage, “chemo-” typically refers to chemicals or chemistry-related concepts. The suffix “-receptive” comes from the Latin word “receptivus,” meaning “capable of receiving.” In English, it denotes the ability or capacity to receive or perceive something. So, “chemoreceptive” essentially means “capable of receiving or perceiving chemicals.”
Description:
To understand how language has occured in nature, it’s important to understand the most basic form of language, which is chemoreceptive language. Compared to audible language and visual language, all organisms use chemoreceptive language. Audible language and visual language can not possibly occur without chemoreceptive language.
Take dogs as an example: a dog doesn’t empty it’s entire bladder when urinating. Instead the dog moves from place to place where it urinates a little bit at the time to mark it’s territory. So when a young inexperienced dog (which hasn’t already learned the meaning of the smell) enters the territory and sniffs out the area where the dog that lives there is home, the situation will go one of three ways:
- The dog attacks the young inexperienced dog.
- The dog wants to breed with the young inexperienced dog.
- The dog doesn’t consider the young inexperience dog a threat or mate, so nothing happens.
The more times the situation which occurs correlates with the smell, the more likely it is that the young inexperienced dog detects and learns the language.
Absolutely all examples we have of chemoreceptive language is a form of communicating either danger or safety, which detects as feelings of likes and dislikes. The consequences of danger is to stop existing, while the consequences of safety is to continue existing, which makes danger and safety the foundation of all language. This form of communication must be present for a brain to occur. A brain must have the possibility to differentiate between existence and nonexistence to exist.
All evolution of language and brain is a variation of this function.