Terrence Deacon: Language, Symbolic Cognition & Origins of the Human Mind | Good Chemistry #20
Mind & Matter
English - April 29, 2021 18:00 - 2 hours - 116 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsScience Society & Culture science drugs psychedelics technology biotechnology innovation biology brain neuroscience startups Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nick talks to biological anthropologist and cognitive scientist, Terrence Deacon. The conversation focuses on ideas from Terrence's book, "The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain." They spend nearly three hours talking about the origins of language. Topics include: what is language and how does it differ from animal communication? How do children acquire language so easily at a young age? What is symbolic cognition, how is it different from other forms of cognition, and how did this unlock our ability to evolve language?
Read "The Symbolic Species" by Terrence Deacon: https://www.amazon.com/Symbolic-Species-Co-evolution-Language-Brain/dp/0393317544
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