The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

well, for a truly meaningfull answer as to what Mr.
Pinker has to offer instead of language, you'd have to
read the Language Instinct...an over simplified answer
would be that there are nonverbal "modes" of cognition
going on all the time in us, and that it is a mistake
to assume the paramount importance of language in
manner of thinking...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Keith McMullen wrote:
> 
> > from an empirical standpoint, all there is, is
> consciousness.....no 
> > way to know if there's anything
> else.....impossible.....
> 
> I like that because it's correct, simply said and
> quickly read.
> 
> What's got Mr. Pinker to offer instead of language?
> 
> Finished Richard Powers' "Galathea 2.2" this week.
> Good book. Fits very 
> well into this discussion.
> 
> Otto
> 
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, John Doe wrote:
> >
> > ....the famous
> > linguistic scientist Steven Pinker, who you would
> > think, given the nature of human vanity, has a
> vested
> > interest in making his field paramount, denies
> that
> > language is the only, or even necessarily the
> PRIME
> > generator of conciousness, let alone All of
> > Reality..
> >
> >
> 
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