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Seminar · Cognition
It’s not over our heads: Why human language needs a body
Michał B. Paradowski · Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
Mon, May 9, 2022 · 10:30 UTC
n the ‘orthodox’ view, cognition has been seen as manipulation of symbolic, mental representations, separate from the body. This dualist Cartesian approach characterised much of twentieth-century thought and is still taken for granted by many people today. Language, too, has for a long time been treated across scientific domains as a system operating largely independently from perception, action, and the body (articulatory-perceptual organs notwithstanding). This could lead one into believing that to emulate linguistic behaviour, it would suffice to develop ‘software’ operating on abstract re