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Month: March 2011

Can a Language Form as Human Minds Shape Themselves to an Unfolding Reality?

March 29, 2011 by loydf

I’ve finished reading Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but I continue to think about the issues he raised. Some of his attempts to make sense of these “scientific revolutions” involve efforts to make sense of the language used by various groups of scientists. When talking about the need to use a assumption-loaded … [Read more…]

Posted in: Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, Modern language, Quantum mechanics, relativity theory, St. Thomas Aquinas Tagged: Christian in the universe of Einstein, evolution of the mind, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas

The Evolution of Language in a Rational World

March 17, 2011 by loydf

There’s a review, Language and spandrels, at the weblog of John Hawks which discusses the question: “How can there be one grammatical structure for all human beings if there is no known way to see selective pressures for the rules of grammar?” As the review notes, the famous linguist Noam Chomsky did a lot of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Biological evolution, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas Tagged: Biological evolution, Brain sciences, evolution of the mind, human nature

What is Mind?: The Mind of a Modern Scientist

March 15, 2011 by loydf

I’ve just finished reading Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He’s quite aware of the objective nature of reality but he speaks of major changes in understanding of the world leaving scientists (or others in different conversations) as if in a new world. Elsewhere he speaks a bit more reasonably of the scientist … [Read more…]

Posted in: Brain sciences, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas Tagged: brain, Brain sciences, Christian in the universe of Einstein, evolution of the mind, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas

The Invasion of Brain-eating Words and Concepts

March 10, 2011 by loydf

John Hawks, prominent anthropologist and leader of the Neandertal Anti-defamation League, made some interesting comments in reviewing the article Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(Early online) by Marina Bedny, et al. See John Hawks Weblog for his review, Language bootstrapping the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Biological evolution, Brain sciences, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas Tagged: Biological evolution, brain, civilization, evolution of the mind, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas

Myth and History in the Bible and Everywhere Else in Creation

March 1, 2011 by loydf

[This is a somewhat freewheeling response to Biblical Leadership — first given as a lecture in 1928, a chapter in the book On the Bible: Eighteen Studies, a collection of short writings taken from the various works of Martin Buber.] In the essay, Biblical Leadership, Martin Buber states: I believe that we are standing at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Bible, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, Narratives and truth Tagged: Bible, Creation, history, knowledge

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