The Human Brain’s Greatest Invention: The Neuroscience of Language (The Social Brain ep 42)

Something fascinating is happening as you watch this video. You are effortlessly converting a series of sounds into meaningful thoughts. To do that, your brain has to take a sound wave and somehow extract from it a specific message that I’m trying to convey to you right now. We rarely stop to think about how weird language is. It’s even rarer that we ask ourselves how our brains do any of that.
In this episode, we’ll talk about all this while exploring some of the neuroscience of language.
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[@frankdiluzio8690]

I watched like 3 minutes and heard the word 'like' like 30% of the time.

[@pragya_bharti06]

😂😂😂

[@VictorBrunko]

To improve these both parts of the brain I stimulate BDNF production

[@psikeyhackr6914]

*The Tyranny of Words* (1938) by Stuart Chase George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase published the book, *A New Deal* shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust.

[@theJellyjoker]

[0:06] I have hyperlexia, I learn to read before I could speak. All words are are monolithic ideograms, breaking them up into phonemes associated with glyphs is awkward and confusing. I also have Dyscalculia, numbers shapes that communicate no information to me, have no intrinsic associative value and no discernible pattern or associations to themselves or anything that provides any utility to me. and seem to have no syntactic or grammatical function. try and wrap your brain around that!

[@macmackay2179]

amazing

[@b-eazy6663]

If you look out into the universe and look and see what you can see and then everything you can't see it took all of it to be able to make it happen

[@vivekrtalks5861]

Please give some tips sharpen brain after tbi

[@life42theuniverse]

Language is older than Homo Sapiens

[@PhillipYewTree]

Like, like, like, like, like, like, like. Irritating

[@VictorBrunko]

If you guys mention AI or linguistics models at least once, I'm out

[@ALavin-en1kr]

The human brain did not invent anything; humanity imitates it does not create anything original; astro turf is not grass. Sanskrit is the oldest of the Indo European languages and its alphabet is based on actual sounds. Language was a given, like oxygen and much else it was there as sounds for humans to access. It is fundamental not a human invention.

[@DanielBro42]

@@ALavin-en1kr interesting, if you say that language is not a human invention or an invention at all, what is an invention? can you give an example for a truly 'original' example? does it exist?

[@ALavin-en1kr]

@@DanielBro42 The wheel might suffice.