Comments on: Language and self-awareness http://sciconrev.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/ News from the Scientific Study of Consciousness Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: arbitrarymarks.com » Blog Archive » Language and self-awareness http://sciconrev.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-193716 arbitrarymarks.com » Blog Archive » Language and self-awareness Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:38:35 +0000 http://sci-con.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/#comment-193716 [...] closely connected language and self-awareness are, in undertaking different tasks.  The researcher blogs about it at Science and Consciousness Review.  The seven task areas studied were:  (1) agency (knowing that [...] [...] closely connected language and self-awareness are, in undertaking different tasks.  The researcher blogs about it at Science and Consciousness Review.  The seven task areas studied were:  (1) agency (knowing that [...]

]]> By: Talking to ourselves « Ideasblog http://sciconrev.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-186887 Talking to ourselves « Ideasblog Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:23:18 +0000 http://sci-con.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/#comment-186887 [...] Talking to ourselves Filed under: Uncategorized — nisheedhi @ 1:55 am Language and self-awareness | Science & Consciousness Review [...] [...] Talking to ourselves Filed under: Uncategorized — nisheedhi @ 1:55 am Language and self-awareness | Science & Consciousness Review [...]

]]> By: Mind Hacks http://sciconrev.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-186045 Mind Hacks Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:18:00 +0000 http://sci-con.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/#comment-186045 <strong>2007-08-24 Spike activity...</strong> Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Why are visual memories so vivid when visual memory is so limited? Cognitive Daily has another fantastic breakdown. Science and Consciousness Review has a new feature article on whether language is... 2007-08-24 Spike activity…

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Why are visual memories so vivid when visual memory is so limited? Cognitive Daily has another fantastic breakdown. Science and Consciousness Review has a new feature article on whether language is…

]]> By: whit http://sciconrev.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-162767 whit Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:54:20 +0000 http://sci-con.org/2007/08/language-and-self-awareness/#comment-162767 In what sense do you mean "talk to ourselves"? The LIFG activity could well correlate with concern with language as spoken. But presumably there are areas of the brain concerned with dance, which are particularly active in those for whom dance forms a central part of their culture (as speech does for most Americans). In a population of dancers, such "inner dance" might well be suggested by brain scanning studies parallel to those you've cited. Someone like Maxime Sheets-Johnstone (who wrote <i>The Primacy of Movement</i>) might even suggest from those studies that "inner dance" is the very key to consciousness. But then someone from a particularly visual people - lets say the Australian aborigines - could argue similarly for a primacy of light. All these - movement, light, language - are special. But it seems if your argument is to mean what you want it to language should be unique among them, the only means by which an item can be "fully brought to conscious." Considering Ned Block's work, wouldn't it be fairer to say "It's the only way it can be brought to verbal description" - to one particular sort of access? Although tautological, that still gives language a special place, "explaining consciousness" in a sense, if not in the sense you're arguing for. In what sense do you mean “talk to ourselves”? The LIFG activity could well correlate with concern with language as spoken. But presumably there are areas of the brain concerned with dance, which are particularly active in those for whom dance forms a central part of their culture (as speech does for most Americans). In a population of dancers, such “inner dance” might well be suggested by brain scanning studies parallel to those you’ve cited. Someone like Maxime Sheets-Johnstone (who wrote The Primacy of Movement) might even suggest from those studies that “inner dance” is the very key to consciousness. But then someone from a particularly visual people – lets say the Australian aborigines – could argue similarly for a primacy of light. All these – movement, light, language – are special. But it seems if your argument is to mean what you want it to language should be unique among them, the only means by which an item can be “fully brought to conscious.” Considering Ned Block’s work, wouldn’t it be fairer to say “It’s the only way it can be brought to verbal description” – to one particular sort of access? Although tautological, that still gives language a special place, “explaining consciousness” in a sense, if not in the sense you’re arguing for.

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