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CONFERENCE EMBODIED LANGUAGE II
2013 September 2-4 Christ's College Cambridge, Charles Darwin's college.
For information:
At the end of the 2011 New College conference there was a brief discussion of what might follow.
One idea was a journal collection. The Biolinguistics Special Issue should be appearing soon.
Another idea was a follow-up conference in two years' time. [now at Biolinguistics]
Embodied semantics (with links to embodied cognition) is still a very active research topic.
Embodied language could also include syntax (syntactic and other abstract words). Details later.

Website: Christ's College Cambridge Embodied Language II

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NEW COLLEGE EMBODIED LANGUAGE CONFERENCE September 2011:
New College Files - - - Presentations - - - Embodied Language and the Ascent of Intelligence... Transcript

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Language for Good or Evil
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LIST OF PAPERS

EMBODIED LANGUAGE

Embodied Language:Selected Citations

Embodied Emotions

Mind Words

Robot gesture and conversation

"Language allows us to analyse (decompose, mirror) the structure of our actions, to identify the neural sub-actions constituting the total action."
"There is a Lexicon of Actions from which the lexicon of words is derived"
Anatomizing mind

CHAMELEON THEORY OF PERCEPTION
All bodily movements are changes in posture - and posture is body-image. We visualise any movement (of arm, leg, head, hand, mouth) as a change in body-image, a change in posture - the movement brings our actual posture into coincidence with our visualised new body-image, visualised posture. ... Perception appears to be a process similar to that by which the chameleon changes its bodily state to match its background. Perception (on the chameleon theory) is internal ordering guided by external ordering. The perception of speech and the perception of gesture are aspects of this chameleon-process. Ideomotor action is the reverse process. Both stem from the integration of the motor system and perception. [Extract from R. Allott 1994. Gestural Equivalence of Language LOS UCAL Berkeley]

New College Oxford Presentation: Embodied Language and the Ascent of Intelligence

Chapter 2 The Great Mosaic Eye Embodied Language and the Ascent of Intelligence [full text]

MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE: Basic Propositions

The Motor Route
Or try a motor theory experiment!

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BOOKS

RMA Videos

HOW? Many Questions

RMA cogprint files

PRESENTATIONS

ESSCS 2010 The Scientific Mind Presentation
The Scientific Mind Transcription

MIND BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Alternate Version with Animations

LANGUAGE AND THE STUFF OF THOUGHT
Video Part 1 Video Part 2

MAN AS MACHINE: Reconsidering La Mettrie
Transcription Video version

ASCENT OF INTELLIGENCE
Transcription Text only

HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE
ST PETERSBURG Version Transcript
The Child and the World: Complete Text

MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

BRAIN LEXICON AND SYNTAX

MOTOR CONTROL AND LANGUAGE FUNCTION [ Motor control references]

GESTURAL EQUIVALENCE OF LANGUAGE

THE PHYSICAL FOUNDATION OF LANGUAGE: Videos

AUTISM AND THE MOTOR THEORY

TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS

THE POWER OF POETRY ORWith Spoken Text

GRAVITY AS A REPULSIVE FORCE [videos]

HOW THE ALPHABET WAS INVENTED [video]
Powerpoint presentation Text only

MACBETH EXTRACTS ILLUSTRATED

LANGUAGE PAPERS

Physical Foundation	Language Vision and Action	Primitive Vocabulary	Meaning	Colour naming
Structural interrelations	Non-arbitrariness	Lexicon structure	Evolutionary origin	How children acquire language
Power of words	Hypnosis	Science & Language	Philosophy & Language	Philosophy in a Nutshell
Motor theory	Japanese	Autism	Language motor function	Language diversity
Semiosis	Perception	Syntax	Sound symbolism	Alphabet origin
Gestural equivalence	Language Instinct?	Ideomotor action	Role of language	Isomorphism & Iconicity
Glossary	Cat sat on the Mat	Irregular verbs	Neurology	Motor primitives
Basic motor propositions	Powerpt Motor theory	Motor control and language	Imitation and Language	Language as a Mirror of the World

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY PAPERS

Objective morality	Altruism and Mirror Neurons	Love & empathy	Arts & Sociobiology	Biomathematics
Biomusic	Biopoetry	Human life	Ascent of intelligence	Man as Machine
Culture: The missing link	Antheap or drugged society	Social cohesion	Group & Nation Identity	Next 2 billion years

IDEAS AND THOUGHTS

Cool	Steps in the Mind	Univeral organism	MM	Markings
Fragments	Sonnets	Nishida	Marcus Aurelius	Thomas Browne
Hazlitt	Herder	de Brosses	Not alone	Cleanthes
Helen Keller	Time	Gravity	Giants	Geneva
Macbeth extracts	Masha	Family	Fratres	A few faces
Song	Birdsong	Greek Fragments	Other Verse	Other languages Verse	Huxley

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ANIMATIONS

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GIGI: general presentation	Complete animations	Function words	Verbs	Nouns
Adjectives	Interrogatives	Greek verb animations	Auxiliaries	Emotion Animations
System tables	Domestic animals	Wild animals	More animals	Birds
Apples	Colours	Philosophical gestures	SWADESH Basic 100 Words	Motor theory experiment

LIST OF PAPERS
Abstracts
References consolidated

LIST OF ANIMATIONS

Postscripts

"I wish to God there were more automata in the world like you" [Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley]

"Language allows us to analyse (decompose, mirror) the structure of our actions, to identify the neural sub-actions constituting the total action."
"There is a Lexicon of Actions from which the lexicon of words is derived"
Anatomizing mind

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