Can't I Have an Inner Life Without Words?

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There are people who don't have language, a brain damage or whatever, and surely they haven't inturn. They haven't an internal selfada lived experience in there. So let me say two things to that. First, i would disagree. There's pretty strong evidence that human children that are raised without language, if later you get brain damage, very different story,. But if you raise a child without language, famous example is a young girl named jeanie that was locked in a crib for, i think, 11 or 12 years without any human contact, never heard e human words spoken. Her father was psycotic. Whenever he near acted with her, he bark

Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.

Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.