15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 9/8/2018
Language comes naturally to us, but is also deeply mysterious. On the one hand, it manifests as a collection of sounds or marks on paper. On the other hand, it also conveys meaning – words and sentences refer to states of affairs in the outside world, or to much more abstract concepts. How do words…