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Is the Way You Speak Limiting How You Think?For years, scientists debated how language shapes the brain, but new research reveals it goes far beyond communication. Some languages lack numbers, grammar, or even complex sentences—yet their speakers navigate reality in ways that defy expectations.In this mind-bending episode, linguist Daniel Everett, known for challenging Noam Chomsky's theories, shares how his time with the Pirahã people reshaped our understanding of language, cognition, and even consciousness.If language rewires thought, what happens when AI starts using it? Can a machine truly think? And what if whales, with their massive brains, have a language of their own?What You'll Discover in This Episode: • The hidden power of language—why learning a new one literally reshapes your brain • The Piraha people's mind-blowing approach to communication and what it reveals about human thought • Can AI truly “think” in language, or is it just an advanced mimic? • How your environment affects memory, navigation, and cognitive function • The psychedelic connection to language evolution—could altered states have unlocked speech? SPONSORS• Puori | Visit https://puori.com/dave and use code DAVE for 20% off.• BON CHARGE | Go to https://boncharge.com and use code DAVE for 15% off.Resources:• Dave Asprey's New Book - Heavily Meditated: https://daveasprey.com/heavily-meditated/• Dan Everett's Website: https://daneverettbooks.com/• 2025 Biohacking Conference: https://biohackingconference.com/2025• Danger Coffee: https://dangercoffee.com• Dave Asprey's Website: https://daveasprey.com• Dave Asprey's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daveasprey• Upgrade Collective – Join The Human Upgrade Podcast Live: https://www.ourupgradecollective.com• Own an Upgrade Labs: https://ownanupgradelabs.com• Upgrade Labs: https://upgradelabs.com• 40 Years of Zen – Neurofeedback Training for Advanced Cognitive Enhancement: https://40yearsofzen.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matt and Jay discuss why learning the wrong lesson - or the right lesson - after we make a mistake will make all the difference between future successes or even greater failures. We're very excited to announce our books “Sexual Magnetism,” “The WASM Dating Handbook” and “Secrets of Sensual Massage” are now available! Follow these links to get your copies of "Sexual Magnetism," "The WASM Dating Handbook" and "Secrets of Sensual Massage" on Amazon.com. Intro: You're Going To Lose. Again. And Again. And Again. We discussed it last time. Yeah it sucks. Yeah it's a fact. Gotta accept it if we're going to live in the real world. What We Tell Ourselves After We Fail Post-failure self talk determines your direction Are you a loser? Do you fundamentally not have what it takes? Are you not smart enough, talented enough, strong enough, courageous enough, creative enough - to actually get the W? Are you really not cut out for this? Maybe you should give up… Honestly, what shitty things do you tell yourself after you fail? All the things…the horrible things…we say to ourselves The wrong lessons Why We're So Hard On Ourselves After Failing Often the wrong lessons come from our childhood Parents can be harsh, manipulative or just plain mean to us when we fail Teachers can crush our spirits and limit our belief in ourselves Classmates can be abusive and bully us Other family members and community can be snide, callous or even cruel Can be from adult failures So we slowly learn, over time, that whenever we fail, it's really, really BAD. May be from traumas Divorce, injury, bad girlfriends, fired at work, BUT WE CAN REWRITE OUR SCRIPTS! Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose Learn Question: When a highly successful person fails or makes a mistake, what do they do afterwards? How do they learn the right lesson instead of the wrong lesson? Examples: Temple Grandin Growing up autistic, with overwhelming fear, constant sensory overload and problems interacting with people -> Becoming a world-class animal behaviorist, one of the leading authorities on cattle behavior and helping to create dozens of improvements to humanely raising and slaughtering cattle, and the most famous autistic scientist to study and research autism (that is to say, from “inside” the condition) How did Grandin turn her failure into success? Daniel Everett (with the Piraha people in Amazon) Years spent with a dangerous Amazon tribe trying - and failing - to translate the most difficult language on earth -> Eventual success after transforming himself, his world view, his beliefs about culture (and even his belief in God) How did Everett turn his failure into success? Freddie Roach Failure as a boxer - had some good bouts and a solid performance at the beginning of his career but started to fall apart physically and never became famous -> Tremendous success as one of the most winning boxing trainers in history - training superstars like: Manny Pacquiao (8 World titles), Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Oscar De La and even Mike Tyson! - Also trained MMA greats Georges St. Pierre, Tito Ortiz and Anderson De Silva (among others) How did Roach turn his failure into success? How Do We Stop Learning the WRONG Lessons and Start Learning the RIGHT Lessons? Step 1. Accept Your Failure (and the pain!) Yeah you screwed up. It sucks. It hurts. That's okay. It's part of the process. Step 2. Become Aware of Your Natural Negative Response To Failure Pay attention to the negative tapes/stories/beliefs playing in your head after you fucked up Step 3. Figure Out the Truth of the Situation Don't lie to yourself or others. Step 4. Choose a Positive, Productive Response To Failure Think of some positive, success-oriented tapes you could play instead that will help you to accomplish your goal For example: How can I use this experience to make me stronger next time? What did I learn that I can use later? What do I want to avoid? What do I need to work on? Who do I need to get close to - or away from? Am I truly passionate enough about this goal to deal with this pain? Is this simply a minor setback or should I focus my energy in a different direction? Step 5. Go and Do Something Risky and Challenging Again Whatever you want in life, if you truly plan on getting it, if you're serious…you're gonna have to pay for it… …but once you've succeeded, once you can ride a bike or fly a plane or make a million dollar business or have sex with a beautiful woman…once you've learned the skill, you can do it again! Summary of Learning the Wrong Lesson Accept Your Failure Notice Your Shitty Mental Tapes Figure Out the Truth Choose a Positive, Productive Response To Failure Go Do the Thing Again…and Again…and Again…Until you get it! Conclusion If you're learning to ride horses and you get bucked off you have two choices: Get back on a horse or choose never to ride again for the rest of your life.

Ne najpomembnejša, vsekakor pa zanimiva dejstva za zvedave poslušalce, ki morajo izmed petih trditev izbrati napačno. Tokrat zanimivosti, povezane z jeziki, ki veljajo za najtežje na svetu. Izmed spodnjih trditev poiščite tisto, ki ne drži. 1. »Hudičev jezik« je eden od vzdevkov za wenzhoujsko kitajščino. Jezik, ki ga govori kake 4 milijone ljudi, ohranja arhaično besedišče, ima bolj kompleksno slovnico od kitajščine, več tonov in je tako zapleten, da ga ostali Kitajci ne razumejo. Trditev je resnična 2. Silbo gomero, oziroma el silbo je različica žvižgane španščine, ki jo uporabljajo prebivalci Kanarskih otokov. Omogoča komunikacijo tudi na do 5 kilometrov razdalje. Jezik govorita le še dva govorca/žvižgača. Trditev je izmišljena 3. Južnoafriški jezik taa velja za enega najtežjih na svetu, ker ima največ fonemov (zvokov) na svetu, več kot 200. Poleg tega se več kot 80 % vseh besed v jeziku taa začne s klikom. Trditev je resnična 4. Jezik ljudstva Piraha v Amazoniji je tako drugačen, da zanika velik del jezikovnih teorij. Ne poznajo časov, ne poznajo barv, metafor in nimajo števil. Jezikoslovci še danes ne vedo čisto točno, kam ga uvrstiti in kako ga sploh analizirati. Trditev je resnična 5. Ithkuil je konstruiran, torej umeten jezik. Ustvaril ga je lingvist John Quijada, in je glasovno, tonemsko in slovnično tako kompleksen, da ga ne zna govoriti niti on. Trditev je resnična

Welcome to Train to Dreamland, a podcast to help you unwind and fall asleep. Tonight's journey includes 4 stations: 1. The Piraha tribe and the perceptible present 2. Sleep and creativity 3. Oracle card High Priestess, is pulled from Angels and Ancestors by Kyle Gray; 4. Amulets for luck and protectionThis podcast is enhanced by music licensed from epidemicsound.com

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MU5zQwtT4 Noam Chomsky talks about group selection, his own death, the Piraha language, and more, it his widest varied interview yet. Iain McGilchrist's podcast: Coming next week Stuart Hameroff's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo0Zwe579g Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Help support conversations like this via PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Google Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Id3k7k7mfzahfx2fjqmw3vufb44 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Discord Invite Code (as of Mar 04 2021): dmGgQ2dRzS Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:17 Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought? 00:06:54 Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules 00:11:16 Roger Penrose's Emperor's New Mind 00:20:02 Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever] 00:21:00 Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain] 00:21:54 Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution) 00:22:58 Group Selection [Slaventhefourth] 00:23:32 Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w] 00:31:40 Elon Musk's Neuralink [Tarek] 00:09:53 Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan] 00:42:31 Steven Pinker 00:43:48 Yuval Harari's Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez] 00:49:50 Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma] 00:54:40 Karl Friston's free energy principle [MediocreBat2] 00:55:03 What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April] 01:03:58 Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat] 01:06:23 What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April] 01:11:44 Open AI and GPT-3 01:12:22 Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal] 01:12:40 How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1] * * * Subscribe if you want more conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, God, and the mathematics / physics of each. * * * I'm producing an imminent documentary Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to contribute to getting the film distributed (early-2021).

New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto is the author of five books and numerous science-linked articles. This is the Voice begins with a story about how he blew out his own voice singing in a band. Along the way, he shows us why the voice is the most efficient, effective means of communication ever devised. Even babies hear their mother's voices in the womb. Our voices can be calibrated to reach one other person or thousands. One of his many research stops is up the Amazon to meet the Piraha, a reclusive tribe whose speaking sounds like singing. In our conversation, he compares the political voices of Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booktalk-diana-korte/message

John Colapinto is a journalist, author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2000, he wrote the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, which exposed the details of the David Reimer case, a boy who had undergone a sex change in infancy—a medical experiment long heralded as a success, but which was, in fact, a failure. In 2007, The New Yorker published John's fantastic story of his time in the Amazon with the Pirahã people and linguist Daniel Everett. John's latest book is This is the Voice. John's Twitter feed. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affiliate link kicks a few bucks back my way. Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range,"Say Goodbye," by Eva Cassidy.

In this episode I discuss the mind body language connection. Ever thought about how your language contributes to your overall understanding of your health? I recently read Don't Sleep There are Snakes by Daniel Everett where he studied the language and culture of the Piraha tribe in the Amazonian jungle. His findings started to make me reflect on our use of language and how it impacts our views on health and may reflect what matters most to us. It also led me to think about my time in Moldova teaching health and how some of my topics were hard to break down due to our different perspectives on mental health. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/angela-spignese9/message

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the Piraha language, and what it tells us about the intersection of language and culture. We also talk about the practice of the science of linguistics, animal vs human communication, universal translation, and what unites and what divides us as humans.

Alan Turing? Chomsky? Pirarrãs? O que o pai da ciência da computação, o pai da linguística moderna e uma tribo indígena da amazônia tem em comum? Embarque nesta conversa para descobrir isso e muito mais sobre esses temas aparentemente desconectados, mas que abrigam semelhanças muito interessantes. LINKS: http://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/tese%3Aeverett-1983/Everett_1983_A_lingua_Piraha_e_a_teoria_da_sintaxe.pdf https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-is-not-everything-that-noam-chomsky-said-it-is https://www.estadao.com.br/blogs/daniel-piza/piraha-x-chomsky/ https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Sociedade/noticia/2019/01/noam-chomsky-entenda-sua-teoria-linguistica-e-seu-pensamento-politico.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produção geral: Time Cafeína Host: Michel Gomes Edição: Michel Gomes Equipe de pauta/gravação: Michel Gomes Capa: Marrielly Martines Página no Facebook: fb.me/cafeinapodcast Contato: cafeina-cm@utfpr.edu.br

It's been about 50 years since Noam Chomsky conclusively established that the basic structures of human language are pre-wired in our brains, not gleaned from experience. Or… maybe he didn't. While several generations of theoretical linguists have been diligently expanding the Chomskian program, another faction says there's little or no evidence for his "universal grammar" and it's time to scale back or even scrap the theory. Former innatist Daniel Everett is in now part of the opposition. On last week's show, I aired a 2007 interview with Dan talking about his adventures as a missionary turned Amazonian linguist, and how he lost faith first in Christianity and then in Chomskianism. This time, a new interview with Dan discussing his latest book, "Language: The Cultural Tool." In it, he advances the idea that grammars and other aspects of particular languages are shaped by culture.

Dan Everett is twice a heretic, having strayed from the path of Christian missionary work to become a linguist, and then breaking with the dominant branch of theoretical linguistics led by Noam Chomsky. I did a report on Dan for NPR in 2007, but I never broadcast this longer interview, from which that piece was taken. I decided to air it now because Dan will be on the show next week, talking about his new book on the origins of language. The earlier interview provides the fascinating backstory: how he went from rock n' roller to missionary to Amazonian linguist, his years in the rain forest with the isolated Pirahã tribe, their anomalous language, and how he came to doubt Chomsky's idea of universal grammar.

Since John Locke declared the child's mind a blank slate, philosophers have long debated the degree to which language-learning is innate. Are there are universal grammatical features that all languages share? Daniel Everett, who has spent many years among the Piraha, an Amazonian people who have a highly unusual language, believes that some of Noam Chomsky's claims about language acquisition are mistaken. Listen to him discussing the nature of language with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with The Institute of Philosophy

Is human language an innate characteristic of the human brain? Is there a universal grammar? Or, is language inherently tied to society and cultural forces? On this program, Prof. Daniel Everett discussed linguistics, the Piraha, and religion in Dont Sleep There are Snakes.