Citations
Public
Recent Activity
Items
-
Quote from Terence McKenna: “We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and...“We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and by the time a child is two or three they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words that is interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium ...
Amira's items
added
12 days ago
-
Citations de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - EVENECitations de [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry] ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY ...
Sebastien Wiertz
added
3 weeks ago
-
Quote from Steven Pinker - Rules of Language: “Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts ...
Amira's items
added
3 months ago
-
Quote from: Terrence W. Deacon, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain”“Though we share the same earth with millions of kinds of living creatures, we also live in a world that no other species has access to. We inhabit a world full of abstractions, impossibilities, and paradoxes. We alone brood about what didn’t happen, and spend a large part of each day musing ...
Amira's items
added
3 months ago
-
Quote from: Terrence W. Deacon, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain”“We think differently from all other creatures on earth, and we can share those thoughts with one another in ways that no other species even approaches. In comparison, the rest of our biology is almost incidental. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have produced hundreds of thousands of ...
Amira's items
added
3 months ago
Comments
Members
Active
-
Started Apr. 4, 2009
-
Rules of this twine
This Twine has open membership.
Comments are allowed.
Members may ,add items ,invite people
Twine is about discovering, collecting and sharing the content that interests you. Learn More
Join Twine