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THE WRITING EFFECT [The cognitive box Homo sapiens are in]
Karol Bojnowski
ASIN: B0092K89MU
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 8

THE WRITING EFFECT [The cognitive box Homo sapiens are in] is an exciting new essay linking developments in cognitive science to historical facts about writing. The conclusions are astounding and completely relevant to Homo sapiens interaction with the world we create daily.According to top researchers like Dr. John Searle, Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at University of California- Berkeley, the big step between civilization and more primitive forms of human society is written language. Writing is the infrastructure of civilization itself. It’s a virtual environment for the human mind. Advanced expressions of civilization, such as killing others because we disagree with them, marriage, or becoming an editor, are only possible because of written language. Written language shapes our cognition.In James Bowen’s book, A History of Education, he discusses global ...
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