The embodied mind

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…tuff as it gives an understanding of how we think. Check out these books if you are interesting. We used the first as our textbook. (His writing is like his teaching.) * Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought * Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

I took a class from George at Berkeley. We used Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought as the text. Absolutely fascinating stuff. The article ( http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.... ) is well worth reading. She explains that English speakers will usually refer to a "short movie" or "long movie," and that Spanish and Greek speakers will usually say "small movie" or "big movie." Then: "Our research into such basic cognitive abilities as estimating duration shows that speakers of different languages differ in ways predicted by the patterns of metaphors in their language. (For example, when asked to estimate duration, English speakers are more likely to be confused by distance information, estimating that a line of greater length remains on the test screen for a longer period …