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Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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Is Language the Most Important?

Howard burton: We have a position where people say, language is the most important. But to me, it's just one instancation of a more general functioning of the brain. One mode hits one or hits one mode exacty. It turns out that that one mode is an extremely, is extremely a representative of who we are. Language is such a depart of being human. So i'm not saying that language itself isn't amazing. I just don't think that language itself is the founding aspect upon which all these other things are built. And and that it shows these properties in all these beautiful ways. Our mind is complete Symbolic, is compositional. It as understands

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