This edition adds a new language, the Internet, that emerged between The Fifth Language (1995) and the 2000 iteration of The Sixth Language. Before sharing new insights into the nature and origins of language, Logan (Media Ecology Association, New York U.), recants his earlier nomination of virtual reality as a seventh language. He explores writing
This edition adds a new language, the Internet, that emerged between The Fifth Language (1995) and the 2000 iteration of The Sixth Language. Before sh...
The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.
Building on his previous study, The Sixth Language (2000) and making use of emergence theory, Logan seeks to explain how language emerged to deal with the complexity of hominid existence brought...
The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how...
This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader.
This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the a...
