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SETS AS A PRECONDITION. “We further suggest that verbal language emerged as a primitive form of set theory in that a set of percepts that are associated with each other or are similar are linked together with a word acting as a concept that unites all the members of that set. In a certain sense the primitive form of set theory we just described seems to be a pre-condition for the emergence of verbal language.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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TRANSITION. “We suggest that the brain before verbal language was merely a percept processor and that afterwards it was able to conceptualize, i.e. operate with concepts. Each concept linked all the percepts associated with that concept.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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SETS AND WORDS. “The skill that made language possible and allowed a word acting as a concept to represent all of the percepts associated with that word was the mathematical ability to create sets, the set of all the percepts associated with that word.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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EINSTEIN’S NEW WORLD ORDER. “The anti-intuitive properties of the special theory of relativity and its deep philosophical implications, the bizarre and dazzling predictions of the general theory of relativity: the curvature of spacetime, the exotic characteristics of black holes, the bewildering prospects of gravitational waves, the discovery of astronomical objects as quasers and pulsers, the expansion and the (possible) recontraction of the universe. . . are all breathtaking phenomena.” https://lnkd.in/dJ6fFGM View in LinkedIn
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FIRST CONCEPTS. “Conceptual thinking only became possible with verbal language and our first concepts were our first words. These words acting as concepts linked to and representing all the percepts associated with those words.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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EARLY COMMUNICATION. “Before verbal language, we lived in a world of percepts. Our communication was mimetic consisting of hand signals, facial gestures, body language and non-verbal prosody or tones such as grunts and whines. We could only communicate about the here and now.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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SET THEORY. “The human mind is a product of the brain and verbal language as was argued in The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture (Logan 2007), but verbal language as we have argued was dependent on the ability of humans to think in terms of sets employing a primitive form of set theory.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn
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FEEDING THE BEAST. “Another matter of vigorous debate is the process or processes that trigger and regulate accretion on to the central SMBH. As noted above, the most luminous observed quasars require accretion rates such that ∼10(8)–10(9) M⊙ of gas must be funnelled on to the BH over a time-scale of
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