Seems like the sorting out into categories of perceptual units is part of the bio-CPU we inherit. When these units find their meaning in the beholder (with the...
I'm afraid I interpret the post you've included below as children being born with a tabula raza and then acquire their language skills depending on their...
The IDM abstract - I have fleshed it out a bit ---- By identifying the basic methodology used by the brain in the process of deriving meaning, we can identify...
To add some fuel to the fire. The IDM perspective is on the use of recursion of a dichotomy to elicit qualities useable for communicating meaning. Analysis of...
I am sorry about being so cryptic in my previous note. There is evidence on how newborn animals and humans reflexly respond to environmental sensory cues...
To add even more fuel.... Analysis of recursion of WHAT/WHERE, aka differentiate/integrate, as done in the brain we find: (1) From SAMENESS we have a process...
I thank you Dr. d for your reply. However, your language is a bit obscure. I'm not certain what you mean by the inverse relationship of Chomsky, Fodor and...
Dr.CL: "Our consciousness, being the agent of mediation, takes the set of universal qualities and links them to a particular context through the association...
Dr.CL: "The dichotomous perspective appears to be the roots of meaning, where our consciousness, through its mediation skills allows for trichotomous...
Dr. CL:"rich realm of representations prior to any spoken/written word." Precisely my point that those representations = proto-semantic content guiding syntax...
The Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895): a Freudian anticipation of LTP-memory connection theory Diego Centonze, Alberto Siracusanoc, Paolo Calabresia,...
Dear Dr. d, I'm not that well versed in Chomskyian linguistics and haven't read much by Jerry Fodor but I do think that heredity plays an important roles in a...
It has taken me a while to 'settle' after reading the recent email of Geraldine's. The 'lack of understanding' re language acquisition etc is stunning IMHO -...
Dr.d, I did not know you are 'that much' involved in our brain! Just one request: please do not take seriously what you wrote about the "bio-cpu". It sounds...
Chris Lofting wrote: Depite attempts to deny the fact, there are innate skills in individuals that will determine their futures regardless of context - and...
Hi Mike, ... Yes - basic metabolic rates, determined by genetics, will set down a speed with which one processes information. The subjective time distortion...
Self-directedness, integration and higher cognition Christensen, Dr Wayne D (2004) Self-directedness, integration and higher cognition. Language Sciences...
"I present evidence that indicates that the same integrative characteristics found in lower cognitive process such as motor adaptation are present in a range...
Just to keep up the momentum on 'innate skills', IQ tests will elicit a normal distribution curve - aka a Gaussian curve. In Gauss' particular concern, the...
...and to add more fuel to the innate skills issue, There is an 'instinctive' focus on SAMENESS and DIFFERENCE; purity is a focus on maintaining 'sameness' -...
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Hi John, ... as usual! no problem ;-) ... You may consider there to be no 'sameness', but your neurological/cognitive/conceptual nature DOES focus on issues of...
I am not sure that further discussion will get us anywhere, because we are, I think, going in very different directions. I am interested in REAL WORLD skills...
re charisma: cha·ris·ma ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-rzm) n. pl. cha·ris·ma·ta (-m-t) A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent...
BTW - in the context of "Scientific Research" etc, for charisma etc see: Bradley, R.T. (1987) "Charisma and Social Structure : A Study of Love and Power,...
Hello, Chris, here are some excerpts from your (appreciably not too long) reply and my remarks attached to them. I leave only par-s below to draw remarks. (The...
John, ... Your focus seems to be ontological - as such it is specialist, as reflected by your choice to ignore, dismiss, time. This ignoring reflects an...