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Confusing the Map for the Territory - 0 views

  • One of the most tragic outcomes of faithful belief comes out of its defense. Since a believer cannot defend a belief by testing it outside one's mind, the only defense comes out of language and emotion. While a scientist or an engineer can confirm or deny the reality of a theory by experimenting against matter and energy, a faithful believer must resort to experimenting with words and their meanings and the feelings they get from them. Unfortunately the symbols of language can collect various meanings for the same set of symbols that can lead to arguments about the
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Science Weekly podcast: Test fear, panic and arousal in cinemagoers; plus, hologram cal... - 0 views

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    "The physiology of panic, fear and arousal in cinemagoers; the evolutionary psychology of leadership; plus, robonauts and holographic communications"
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BBC News - Language universality idea tested with biology method - 1 views

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    "A long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt. A study reported in Nature has borrowed methods from evolutionary biology to trace the development of grammar in several language families. The results suggest that features shared across language families evolved independently in each lineage. The authors say cultural evolution, not the brain, drives language development. At the heart of both studies is a method based on what are known as phylogenetic studies."
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