The Core Argument of Your New Book, Mined in Motion

When i entered graduate school, the view was that thinking happened in language. And i started thinking that spatial cognition takes up half the cortex. It evolved before language. Animals can do very intelligent things without language. So it seemed to me that spatial cognition had its own logic different from language,. and that that needed to be explored. That occupied me, step by step through a long career. Yes. I think this is the main basis of your new book. It's called mined in motion. The talk gets into gestures. We have no other way of talking about ideas except as if they were objects. When we raise ideas, we make a gesture of raising. When we tear them apart,

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