I like the word plasticity, the idea that something would be capable of being shaped or formed. It’s an optimistic word, pointing to the promise of change, or transformation (another word I like). Today I happened upon some of the work of Nancy Nersessian, Professor of Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She’s […]
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The hoopla about Hawking’s new book made it frustratingly clear that there’s a real impasse in the centuries-old debate over whether science, and its intrinsic rationality, can or should definitively dispute religious ideas. The impasse is, I believe, a consequence of our not seeing the elephant in the room, namely ourselves. The debate proceeds, as […] I just heard a story on NPR’s All Things Considered that centered on when we became mentally modern human beings. In our evolutionary history, the show argues, the appearance of symbolic thought marks the genesis of uniquely human developments more than say, standing upright. And I agree. On a daily basis, we move more from […] |
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