Mind Your Language Metaphor, Thought, and Imagination
Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Evelina Fedorenko, and Daniel Dor join Brian Greene to grapple with the foundations of language. Language ranks among the most powerful influences on human existence. Yet it presents many mysteries. Was there a rewiring of the human brain which gave us the capacity for language? Or is it a human invention developed to facilitate group cooperation? Is language primarily a communication tool or the substrate of inner thought? And how is it that with a few choice phrases language can fire the imagination or transport us to the stars?
Thursday, September 30 @ 3:00pm EDT This program is free. |
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Brian Greene and Max Tegmark explore the very nature of mathematics and the controversial possibility that mathematics and reality are one and the same. WATCH NOW
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