http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/18/robert-logan-on-the-extended-mind/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Sun, 20 May 2012 14:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/18/robert-logan-on-the-extended-mind/#comment-4172 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:16:12 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1837#comment-4172 It has been my particular question of late as to whether the developments in neuroscience indicate that alphabetic writing and literacy can be defined as a unique cognitive event, one that shows a particular brain pattern that reinforces abstraction and abstract thought. An alternative would be that neuroscience and brain patterns show that pictographic writing and literacy do not reinforce abstraction and abstract thought.

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/18/robert-logan-on-the-extended-mind/#comment-3668 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:15:35 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1837#comment-3668 I want to thank Greg Downey for his invitation to provide a synopsis of my book. I hope to hear from readers of this blog their reaction to my ideas. Feel free to contact me directly also if you wish at logan@physics.utoronto.ca. I am also working on a project to understand the nature of information entitled simply: What is Information? Information has many different meanings depending on the context in which it is used and Shannon’s deinition of information is only one of many possibilities. The connection to neuroanthropology is that the original meaning of information according to the OE dictionary was a training of the mind, a meaning used by Chaucer. I am hoping this plug for my latest project will generate some leads. I am happy to have discovered this most fascinating blog and look forward to exploring its prodigious depths.

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