Media: Stevan Harnad Adaptive Function of Lang
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Gloria Origgi
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| Submitter Email: | Gloria.Origgi@enst.fr |
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Stevan Harnad's paper : "Back to the Oral Tradition through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought" is on line and open to discussion at the virtual conference : http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/6 >From the origin of human language 100,000 years ago until the invention of writing 5000 years ago the oral tradition had been the principal creator, conserver and communicator of human knowledge. Our brains are biologically adapted to the tempo of oral interaction in real time. Lapidary writing lost all of that, but soon skywriting will again catch up with the speed of thought. A discussion forum is open around the paper until end of March 2003. Gloria Origgi CNRS - ENST 46, rue Barraul 75013 Paris Gloria.Origgi@enst.fr Responsable du projet: http://www.interdisciplines.org </body> |
| Issue Number: | 14.714 |
| Date Posted: | March 12, 2003 |
