About two weeks after I started wearing my wife’s old Apple Watch, my average heart rate jumped up by ~10bpm about a week before I became sick enough to test myself for Covid, which I did indeed have!
Subsequent to getting through the symptoms my heart rate went back down to normal.
It's more about how people define the term. I don't think I've seen the position made disingenuously.
Most people I've spoken to think of creole as a mixed language that becomes it's own language. To them that describes English and how it came to be.
Even if you require colonisation to be part of it the position can stand. The Anglo-Saxon's colonisation by the Romans and the Normans are a big part of how the English mixture was formed.
If your definition requires an indigenous, non-European, language being modified by contact with a European coloniser's language. Then sure, English isn't a creole language. But I don't think that's how most people use the term creole colloquially.
You're going to have to explain how fifth century Germanic settlers in Britain were colonised by the Romans who arrived in Britain four centuries earlier and were largely a spent force by the time the Germans rolled in ...
Germanic conquerors may be first partially reverse-colonized by the culture they conquered (which heavily romanized with Celtic substrate) and then later further colonized by norman conquerors who were themselves carriers of the remnants of the Roman cultural heritage.
Germanic people (franks) conquered Gaul and you wouldn't call modern french a Germanic language.
Linguistic dynamics are utterly fascinating and complex
I've been listening to The Rest is History podcast lately, and a lot of this happened in Islam via converts.
Tom Holland was saying that many now fundamental Islamic practices were imported into the faith via converts. For example such as praying 5 times a day was apparently a Zoroastrian practice.
The same thing happened to many Cristian practices.
The Eucharist may have originated in the cult of Dionysus.
Probably also Christmas is also a tradition that bears the roots of a pre-christian festivity that has been merged with / subsumed in Christian tradition
Seeing you use intelligence to describe the behavior of cells makes me realize that I don’t have a definition for intelligence. To the degree that I think I combine intelligence and consciousness into some kind of continuum.
How are you defining intelligence such that it encompasses what people do as well has what cells do?
Great question. Psychological research has identified like six areas of intelligence in humans so I’m sure the problem of how to define it simply won’t itself be simple.
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