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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Has Language Changed How We Think?

Language is based on the way we perceive and interact with things in space. It's fair to say that space and movement have changed how we describe things. All our spatial representations depend on interactions, they're a coupling of what we do and how we perceive it. People adapted by moving, by grasping things and if they didn't grasp things and recalibrate how space was represented in the brain, then they didn't learn to behave in the new situation.

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