Belief in Evolutionary Psychology May Be Hardwired, Study Says.
(Cartoon from here. And yes, French was spoken in the EEA.)
In related news, a new study has determined that "cognitive linguistics" is just a metaphor for the way the mind actually works.
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In the previous entry, I made some disparaging remarks about conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), and George Lakoff specifically. I also noted that, in my experience,, the psycholinguist Raymond Gibbs, Jr. is the only one in the cognitive linguistics who seriously addresses the evidence and…
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And I suppose cognitive psychologists will discover that the brain actually is a computer.
Well, it is a computer. Hell, your retina is a computer by itself, even. I don't think, at this point, anyone would deny that it's a machine, and that it does computations, so by definition it's a computing machine, i.e., a computer.
Yes, indeed. I'm glad you guys figured it out. And just think, all from a metaphor.
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