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Aaron Sloman commented on Theories Of The Origins Of Language By Rabia A good presentation, but a deep theory of origins of human language needs to accommodate kinds of information processing that occurred internally in organisms that used internal languages to express percepts, goals, plans, preferences, beliefs, generalisations, etc. and also in young children long before they use language to communicate. Moreover a good theory needs to include sign languages (which any normal human can learn if taught early enough) as well as spoken languages. I argue that sign languages came into use as a side effect of using internal languages to control actions, especially where collaborative actions are useful, in this slideshare presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/asloman/evolution-of-minds-and-languages-presentation :
Evolution of minds and languages: What evolved first and develops first in children: Languages for communicating, or languages for thinking (Generalised Languages: GLs)- 4 months ago
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Aaron Sloman commented on Evolution of minds and languages: What evolved first and develops first in children: Languages for communicating, or languages for thinking (Generalised Languages: GLs) Ian Wright's ideas about "Loop-closing" semantics in this slideshare presentation (slides and audio):
http://www.slideshare.net/wrighti/sloman2011-slides
are also relevant to discussions of evolution of language.- 4 months ago
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Aaron Sloman commented on Loop-closing semantics and the origin of intentional states I've added a link to this slidecast in my notes on transitions in information-processing in biological evolution here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/evolution-info-transitions.html
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