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THE MODERN QUESTION. “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some accept the boundaries of skin and skull, and say what is outside the body is outside the mind.” (David Chalmers). https://lnkd.in/gJgsdgxu View in LinkedIn

FALSE STARTS. “Early reports that this mutation affected only morphological syntax leading to the misleading term ‘grammar gene’, were based on little data and inadequate controls, and have been widely repudiated.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

STAR POWER. “In intermediate luminosity galaxies…the most intense knots of star-formation activity, from which most of the luminosity of the system emerges, are not coincident with either nucleus of the merging galaxies, but occur in a deeply dust-enshrouded overlap region of the ISM of the galaxies. This provides a strong argument that almost all of the energy in this system is being generated by star formation rather than an AGN.” (ISM = interstellar media; AGN = active galactic nuclei). https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

SPEECH PATHOLOGY. “Affected members of the family have a number of difficulties, focused on problems with oro-motor praxis including speech production and non-speech oral movements, and including some less distinct cognitive and perceptual deficits.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

FAMILIAL STUDIES. “The gene was first identified clinically, by virtue of a deleterious mutation in a large British family, using a combination of traditional cognitive neuropsychology and Mendelian genetics.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE GENE. “Called Forkhead-box P2, or FOXP2, this gene is a member of a large and ancient gene family that codes transcription factors (proteins that bind to DNA, thus regulating the expression of other genes).” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE GENE CANDIDATE. “Fortunately, a combination of hard work and luck has provided the first language-related gene that is both the same in all normal human populations and functionally different from that of chimpanzees.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the evolution of language. This author reaches into the genetic fossil record via taxonomy to look for physical traces for a phenomenon that left few. Arguably, much of conscious thought requires language, but unconscious thought appears different. https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

An enormously high door in old town Girona is the result of the hill that ascends to the cathedral, and the necessity of continuing the horizontal. View in LinkedIn

THE EXOCEREBRUM. “My iPhone is not my tool, or at least it is not wholly my tool. Parts of it have become parts of me. This is the thesis of the extended mind: when parts of the environment are coupled to the brain in the right way, they become parts of the mind.” (David Chalmers). https://lnkd.in/dk82B5rC View in LinkedIn