The Embedding

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Linguist Chris Sole secretly raises children on an artificial 'embedded' grammar to probe the limits of the human mind, while in the Amazon a colleague studies the Xemahoa, a tribe whose drug-heightened ritual language seems to achieve impossible self-embedding as a dam project threatens to drown their world. When alien visitors arrive offering advanced technology in exchange for living human brains, language itself becomes the key to their bargain. The three strands converge into an exploration of how language shapes — and might transcend — reality.

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