
Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in Psychology
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What Is the Concept of Modernity?
So mind is identified in terms of different structural domains. If you want to have a singular mind, then of course, it won't do because that is based on the idea of a shareable structural principle or principles. So vision and language are distinct in terms of structural principles. Then they just belong to different realms in some sense in the Cartesian sense, they belong to different doctrines. And of course, animals have vision. There are only five forms of vision in the whole of animal history,. The master I hypothesis only five nights and human eyes, just one of them. Nothing very distinct with a distinctive or the human eyes, the perceptual system. That's my complaint about that constant modern
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