Podcasts about thought language

Jim talks with Kevin Dickinson about the ideas in his recent essay "A Short History of the F-Word." They discuss the mystery of the F-word's origins, a damn fucking abbot in the sixteenth century, the hierarchy of curse words, religious profanities, the poet William Dunbar's use of "fukkit," the case of Roger Fuckedbythenavele, folk etymologies, false acronyms, movies with the most fucks, fucks per minute vs absolute number of fucks, a high Ngram watermark in 2017, the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, senses of fuck, veiling words, John McWhorter's research, the history of fuck in the dictionary, language as fashion, and much more. Episode Transcript Kevin Dickinson at Big Think The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, by Steven Pinker Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever, by John McWhorter Kevin Dickinson is a staff writer and columnist at Big Think. His writing focuses on the intersection between education, psychology, business, and science. He holds a master's in English and writing, and his articles have appeared in Agenda, RealClearScience, and the Washington Post.

This week, Christie, Sam, and Diana talk about their relationships to each of their ancestral languages and the grief they feel from not being as fluent as they'd like. Christie and Diana share what they've been learning through their respective language classes and explore what it means to be connected (or not) to a culture through language. Sam reflects on her recent trip to Japan and what it meant to be able to have even some simple conversations, as well as how she's navigated her biracial identity throughout her life.Mentioned in this episode:The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker Bridges Mental Health is a stigma-free hub for Asians, Pacific Islanders, and South Asian Americans (APISA) to discuss, navigate, and seek mental health care.Find a Therapist.Join our Clinician Community. Write to us with comments & questions, we'd love to hear from you.@bridgesmentalhealthbridgesmentalhealthnyc@gmail.combuymeacoffee.com/bridgesmhCover photo by Janice ChungTheme music by Will Marshall

We primarily think of actors as the ones playing a role and pretending to be someone they really are not. But in a sense everyone wears a mask and acts out a charade. This can be done deliberately, but most of the time is quite subconscious and involuntary. What are the purposes of putting on an invisibile mask? What would life be like without them? And how many layers of masks does a person actually wear? The lecture "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature" by Steven Pinker gives some examples and explanations of persons choosing to express their intention indirectly in order to get the best possible outcome with the least possible risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1d3cNge24&t=1975s Homepage: https://whoamipodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcastwhoami Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastWhoami Odysee: https://odysee.com/@WhoamiPodcast Attributions: Music: "Merry Bay" by Ghostrifter Official (https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official/merry-bay)

As anticipatory metaphysical intellect momentarily thinks thoughts about the whole theory of structure with nature's own most economical coordinate system's omnidirectional matrix in mind, it is quite amazing that our most recent ancestors, the forefathers embarked on liberating paths to establish a newly conceived form of government.  Their model of what it could be, as true for most newly forming governing systems, for the most part, would refer to their accumulated experience and knowledge of what they wanted to be free from. Yet, the fundamental structure and hierarchically positioned authority naturally would be emulative because it was what they knew from observation and experience.  But amazingly they had no direct experience of what inspired them to contemplate, anticipate, formulate a union of ideas that eventuated as a democratic republic. Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided  for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex.

Our humanity is apprised of what R. Buckminster Fuller's “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking” provides, which is vectorial modeling of what nuclear physicists discovered  amongst which were instrumentally apprehended  phenomena.   Before Synergetics, lay perspectives of anticipatory reality had no way of conceptualizing nuclear physics. We are educated without these inevitable correlations and so this educated ignorance tends to discredit our imagination's ability to formulate conceptually, which turns out to be the educator's least concerned responsibility that consequently subjects our intelligent evolution species to whims and wanton ambitions of any predominantly physical objective.  The extent of such ambition spans across variously contrived spectra. The range of it goes cyclically from most powerfully situate self-serving mindsets, ad infinitum.  In the final analysis such thinking, believing, behaving  cannot be considered human in any evolved sense because their inhumanity does not value human beings as we are designed  by Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind (UEOM)  to evolve.  When denying this evolution necessity for all humanity, those who continue to violate what by design is the inherently inviolable integrity of the individual hold  us back in a malevolent environment from evolving en masse as an intelligent species.  Educated ignorance perpetuates profiting at our humanity's expense.  Calling it the political spectrum, per se, might be an attempt by the publishers of the dictionary which requires nomenclature interpreters. Perhaps the interpretation and popularized use of the word, ‘spectrum,' intend figuring out how the P of the PRJWBCS  Politics Religion Justice War Belief Complex Schemes, can control frequencies and angles, which technically are of the electromagnetic spectrum not of this world.  Coincidentally modifications of angle and frequency are the only two possible covariables operative in all Universe design.   Logically, Universe is where to start, not politics. You cannot obsolete Universe, but eventually politics can become obsolete when humans of a mind, our evolution species realize that we can always get out of system, but we can never get out of Universe.Remember to read the entire transcript  on my website, sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided  for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex.

In a repetitive metaphysical redundance, metaphysical intellect's cosmic responsibility anticipates generalized content from the world's disseminated information.  The generalized content induces metaphysical generalized conceptioning field of thought to coordinate a true democracy's omnirational comprehensive system.  Thus far a true democracy has yet to manifest as various democracies in our world are experimental works in progress. Observations of the reenacting articulations can refer the generalized content of the regenerating integrity, once it is communicated subsequent to knowing Synergetics exploration's progress in the  geometry of thinking. When most economical this would be progression from relative ignorance to consciousness evolution which is geodesic.   Metaphysical intellect as a function of UEOM, Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind's metaphysical-physical Universe interprets, paraphrases, accredits, conceptualizes, quotes verbatim, while apprehending to comprehend gleaned aspects of Synergetics.  Eventually the mind in the underway communication process intends comprehending Synergetics despite barely recognized relationship associations illustrated models and detailed by the vectorial geometry explanations.  As systemic thought's mind and brain is cogently involved with this synergetic-energetic information gathering process, its metaphysical intellect as a function of Universe can consciously do so in support of universal integrity.  As well metaphysical intellect can adjust the a priori thought to a total complex of universal principles when informed of such potential as an eventual accomplishment.  Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided  for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex.

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Language comes naturally to us, but is also deeply mysterious. On the one hand, it manifests as a collection of sounds or marks on paper. On the other hand, it also conveys meaning – words and sentences refer to states of affairs in the outside world, or to much more abstract concepts. How do words and meaning come together in the brain? David Poeppel is a leading neuroscientist who works in many areas, with a focus on the relationship between language and thought. We talk about cutting-edge ideas in the science and philosophy of language, and how researchers have just recently climbed out from under a nineteenth-century paradigm for understanding how all this works. David Poeppel is a Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, as well as the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the DaimlerChrysler Berlin Prize in 2004. He is the author, with Greg Hickok, of the dual-stream model of language processing.

Language is the main channel in which human beings share the contents of their consciousness. It offers a window into human nature, revealing the hidden workings of our thoughts, our emotions, and our social relationships. In his lecture, Prof Steven Pinker will explore an example of each: everyday metaphor as a window into human cognition; swearing and taboo words as a window into human emotion; and indirect speech-veiled threats and bribes, polite requests, and sexual come-ons as a window into human relationships. Professor Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, and The Blank Slate.Recorded on 6 June 2008 at the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall.

Shiao Wei Tham reads from The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker, published by Penguin Books. "A good way to appreciate the role of verb constructions in language is to ponder jokes that hinge on an ambiguity between them: same words, different constructions... 'Call me a taxi.' 'OK, you’re a taxi.'"

More at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/power-thought. Human thought is an amazing thing. It has given us not only science, literature, and morality, but also superstition, slavery, and war. Thought has the power to uncover the deepest mysteries of the universe. Or to create new realities – social realities. But what makes human thought so powerful? John and Ken put this question and more to renowned cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of the best-selling "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" and "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature."

Language is the main channel in which human beings share the contents of their consciousness. It offers a window into human nature, revealing the hidden workings of our thoughts, our emotions, and our social relationships. In his lecture, Prof Steven Pinker will explore an example of each: everyday metaphor as a window into human cognition; swearing and taboo words as a window into human emotion; and indirect speech-veiled threats and bribes, polite requests, and sexual come-ons as a window into human relationships. Professor Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, and The Blank Slate.Recorded on 6 June 2008 at the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall.

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker was the guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on Oct. 2, 2012, interviewed by NPR's Neal Conan. Pinker is a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and is the author of numerous books, including The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, and most recently, The Better Angels of Our Nature. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker examines human violence through the centuries. We’ve all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, “What is the world coming to?” But we seldom ask, “How bad was the world in the past?” In the book, Pinker argues that violence in the past was actually much worse than now. Tribal warfare was nine times as deadly as war and genocide in the 20th century. The murder rate of Medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were unexceptionable features of life for millennia, then suddenly were targeted for abolition. Wars between developed countries have vanished, and even in the developing world, wars kill a fraction of the people they did a few decades ago. Rape, battering, hate crimes, deadly riots, child abuse, cruelty to animals—all substantially down. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? What led people to stop sacrificing children, stabbing each other at the dinner table, or burning cats and disemboweling criminals as forms of popular entertainment? The key to explaining the decline of violence, Pinker argues, is to understand the inner demons that incline us toward violence (such as revenge, sadism, and tribalism) and the better angels that steer us away. Thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, bargain rather than plunder, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.

What makes us curse and what does it say about us? Steven Pinker explores this and other linguistic mysteries in his new book. Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive scientist at Harvard University. His book is called The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

Harvard psychology professor, Steven Pinker, presents a talk on his latest book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

Steven Pinker, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist, a research psychologist, and is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. He has also received several honorary doctorates and many awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching, general achievement, and his critically acclaimed books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate. He is also a Humanist Laureate of CFI’s International Academy of Humanism. His newest book is The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Pinker explores what our use of language can tell us about human nature. He discusses our use of metaphors, and what concepts may be innate, how the "language of thought" may be hard-wired in our brains. He also explains how to avoid the pitfalls of such hard-wiring, using the methods of science as the model.