Use your imagination
If translated to english what might have been..
The first communicated message?
The first lie ever told?
This is interesting, both because the question is new and both people who answered before me assumed that the communicators were humans or nearly human. I think the first messages sent between organisms probably arose soon after organisms began interacting, either adversarially or cooperatively. Predation is older cooperation so I guess the first message would have been something along the lines of, "I'm about to try to eat you." It would have been communicated through the action of hunting, as soon as the hunted was able to perceive the predator. As for the first lie, maybe that would be something like camouflage or deceptive body language. "I'm bigger than you," communicated by features designed to inflate an organism's size, or "I'm not really here," or "I'm poisonous," according to various methods of mimicry or crypsis. 1. First conversation..."No dumb ass I told you to hit the sabre toothed tiger over the head, not ME!" Lame? Perhaps. :) but I suppose if your opinion is that the topic is lame, a joke is a nice way to express it....Obviously in order for that statement to be made there must have been an earlier conversation about sabre tooth tigers. 2. First lie ever told..."I love you" lol...Thats one of those statements that can be true one moment and not true the next. 1
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