Mark Johnson: Language and Embodied Mind

[@mrshah2043]

Mark Johnson is an academic gangster, thanks for putting this lecture on youtube for all of us!

[@auroraandreinamarcovig1266]

that was pretty amazing, no one could have explained it better. And yet for all this years, these centuries people were blind to such a primitive way of seeing the world, so much close to reality and our nature than any of the other theories. That was, professor, an wonderful lecture.

[@marcusberns3746]

This man is a legend. I had his class virtually and asynchronies, and still loved it.

[@bobsabin]

Excellent q&a at the end!

[@learningenglishpath8148]

Fantastic lecture. This has been one of my favorite topics for a long while.

[@julianherrero9056]

A very interesting conference. Thanks. Human communication is not exclusively or primarily verbal, but neither is it mostly non-verbal as some have said. Gestures and words interact and complement each other in the communication of meanings. But even in the example of "Singing in the Rain", where the emotion is so evident, the words speak volumes.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Mark Johnson is the Philosopher who co-authored "Metaphors We Live By" with Cognitive Linguist George Lakoff.

[@havenbastion]

Meaning at the most primative level is distinction. The second level is recognition of danger potential, which includes current circumstance. The third level is interest potential, which is predictive/aspirational.

[@andriescudiana5720]

Does anyone have the PowerPoint slides?

[@christopherloughlin9430]

Being a baby is "the beginnings of engagement with the affordances of the world and that's where meanings going to come from". 13.30

[@cowflieswest3046]

"Engagement with the affordances of the world" ..whoo!,Praise Jesus! That quite often means 'deprivation and poverty' living homeless..Wasn't Jesus living poor and sleeping rough? Might find him among the poor today. What an engagement that would be..Holy Christ! eh...

[@havenbastion]

Meaning to a person is an advanced complexity version of the same avoid/approach mechanism in an amoeba.

[@davidkulesh2855]

No it's not. Your reductivism is unjustified. And this was not implied in the lecture. The furthest contemplations of your own intellect are seldom aligned with truth. And in this case , you could assume an amoeba does not have a higher orientation to reality than a human. But God knows why you would assume the inverse.

[@havenbastion]

Everything cognitive happens to be a kind of process, but in that process we can use ideas that don't change relative to the rest of the process. Reality includes ideas such as gravity, ownership, time itself as a measurable phenomenon, which are static relative to all or at least most cognitive instances.

[@carlosluis1970]

phenomenology = boxes inside boxes

[@dragonfly-f5u]

I gonna embed you with a world thats within a world joking

[@rp011051]

very surprised they missed the work of 2 neuro biologists, Maturana and Varela authors of THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (1985) they had proposed cognition as embodied based on their experiments. Varela further de oped this hypothesis in his collaboration. with The Dalai Lama. the education sector seems to be 20 yrs behind the curve. it was only in a 2016 conf of the top older experts in education. & psychology that they said Learning is a biological process

[@havenbastion]

Mind doesn't "come from" the brain, it's a metaphor for the patterns in the brain.

[@healthdoc]

John 1:1 in the beginning was the word and the word was god. Mankind has spent the last five thousand years using words to describe what we are experiencing, hoping that understanding will follow. The symbolic right brain understands more than the verbal left brain can explain in words alone.

[@binukj7970]

The welome Speech is being read out from mobile 😂

[@roxynoz8245]

41:00 See generally Jean Piaget's 4 levels of Cognitive Development.

[@havenbastion]

Ehrm, that's not All embodied cognition is about. On top of what you're saying, which is perfectly rational, people like to take it to it's illogical extreme; panpsychism.

[@dragonfly-f5u]

Semantic and linguistic,cohesion lmao more clowns I hope not

[@nickmunby2553]

Good strong plausible argument. Please just speak and explain. Don't read your slides.