Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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How Does It Get Produced in Brains?
When we learn a language, what we're doing is resolving that relationship. But as soon as I can use it abstractly, my representational capacities become huge. We no longer need to have words always correlated with what they represent. And we can now guess, by inference, a new object that might be better called Gava guy. In this respect, we've since made things more ambiguous because they're no longer neatly grounded in things in the world. But we've also gained all kinds of freedom to refer to things. The very nature of human existence is this kind of shared cognition. To some extent cognition is not just in my own head. My thoughts are actually something that's distributed
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