tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post109782051100990780..comments2024-03-08T04:09:09.836-06:00Comments on Mixing Memory: The Grand Theory of All Thought: BlendingChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-5047881284124557852008-07-30T08:21:00.000-05:002008-07-30T08:21:00.000-05:00I've been searching the web for critiques of the c...I've been searching the web for critiques of the cog sem theories of everything and you make some nice points. Steven Pinker has a bit to say in "The Stuff of Thought". The problem is that it's all a bit knockabout - an pointers to anything a bit more sustained?<BR/><BR/>One of the things that both Lakoff and Faulconnier seem to say is that utterances, words, sentences etc massively underspecify the thoughts that they are expressions of. They then go on to demonstrate - particularly Lakoff - that, with all the pre-concious/unconcious/hidden/not accessible to conciousness goings on that we are all apparently engaged in, that actually the utterance/words/sentences that come out of our mouths are actually fully specified (indeed, over-specified). Curious.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, "That surgeon is a butcher" seems to me to express a feeling more than it does a thought!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1097887308918043392004-10-15T19:41:00.000-05:002004-10-15T19:41:00.000-05:00I didn't know the Churchland's read my blog! Thank...I didn't know the Churchland's read my blog! Thanks for that. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmixingmemory.blogspot.com" TITLE="scarymoonie at aol dot com">Chris</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1097886910590438212004-10-15T19:35:00.000-05:002004-10-15T19:35:00.000-05:00There is nothing being refered to in what is calle...There is nothing being refered to in what is called philosophy of mind, or really cognitive linguistics, except chemical processes. There is a bio-chemical apparatus--the brain. Evenutally it will completely mapped, and what do you bet it wll have some structural similarites to a computer, or at least computational model. I suggest you pass your Organic Chem. class before proceeding any phurther....<br /><br />there may still be reasons to hold to forms behaviorism, since it is unlikely neuroscience will ever be able to predict what the human organism will do simply from mental evidence, unless perhaps there is some neural mapping software, a scanner, attached to the brain.  <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmixingmemory.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F10%2Fgrand-theory-of-all-thought-blending.html%23comments" TITLE="lowrent99 at hotmail dot com">nemesis</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com