It might be a better idea to organize words around senses and anything related to the animal inherent experiences.
This list of words should only contain concepts that have a direct experiential relationship with the world.
For example, the word "Jump" refers to the action of jumping that a human may do with their body. This word does not depend on any other abstract concept rather then the experience of jumping.
You can create a pull request adding words and their descriptions.
How many words does a child need to communicate in order to survive? How many does an adult need?
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What does a baby need to survive?
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What does a kid need to survive?
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What does an adult need to survive?
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What do they need to communicate to survive?
The thing is, our human experience is so complex, vast and detailed that arriving to essentially a digital clone would be a task with a duration of multiple lifetimes. A generational project.
Let's look at the essential words. Here's an example: https://www.smart-words.org/500-most-commonly-used-english-words.html
List
- Hide
- Jump
- ๐ฌ Layout
- ๐ฌ Absence
- Insert
- Outside
- Large
- Small
- Objective
- "What do you think?"
- uncertainty
- Help
- ๐ฌ Hindsight
- Complicated
- Confused
- ๐ฌ Smell
- ๐ฌ Imagine
- Recursive