Colin Blakemore – Language and Consciousness

42 thoughts on “Colin Blakemore – Language and Consciousness”

1. "Language: ALL DIGITAL communications require a formal language, which in this context consists of all the information that the sender and receiver of the digital communication must both possess, in advance, in order for the communication to be successful." (Wikipedia: Digital Data) Inherent in DNA's Digital Code is language. Language is scientifically proven to be the product of only Mind/ Consciousness / Intelligence.

2. Could language come from brain ability to experience, focus and direct energy?

3. There is no way around the fact that it is consciousness that creates language.
   So how can language be anything else than the footprint of the soul.
   The same thing with consciousness.
   And what is consciousness other than the morse code of reality received by the soul.
   That code is analyzed and interpreted by someone, and that someone is the soul.
   We are spiritual beings or sould entrapped in or riding a physical body.

4. The best statement here was that one word "Consciousness" is hopelessly inadequate to grasp what it is to experience being human.

5. Language is a tool for communication, it is used in the mental processes for thinking , but it is not the only tool. There are those deaf-mutes those are more intelligent than those can speak and hear.
   The transmission of ideas and thoughts.. through social communication tool like language is important, but it is not the only way to think and communicate!
   if humans can recognize that the basics of grammar of all humans languages are built in, like the past, present and future those are ready to adapt any human language, they would change their assumptions…!

6. Such interviews always expose differences between narrow and wider minds. The open mind continues to work (reason) at explanations of natural laws. Thank 'god' I'm a biologist and not a fantasist.

7. That guy sounds like he has no children, showing substantial lack of understanding of child psyche if he maintains a below 18mth child lacks selfawareness.

8. So, it has been determined that written human language arouse about 5 thousand years ago. Then, who/what wrote the written language of biological systems found in DNA starting at least billions of years ago if language is a product of mind / consciousness / intelligence?

9. Lexicographic Circular Definition – Every word in the dictionary is defined with other words in the dictionary. The basics of language emerge in each person as they experience the world, create nouns, and identify red. The color red, the noun red, and build up to more complex ideas like international, and rational. Not just red, by the way. Other word labels for experiences also come to mind.
   "Whereof one cannot speak, one must remain silent."
   -Ludwig Wittgenstein

10. He's only talking about functional aspects, the "easy problems of consciousness". He seems to borrow ideas from Daniel Dennett, who also likes to evade the actual question.
    How can people not know what the question is about? How can one miss the most obvious "thing" there is?

11. The king of country should be fhilospar ,if is not the fhilosopar should be a king

12. In other "words" there is no self consciousness without language? Consciousness is, but self-consciousness is derivative of language? Maybe, maybe not.
    A sense of self can exist without the linguistic mind. A self separate from others and individually determined by actions and reactions. A private self determined by feelings and needs of hunger, thirst, desire, rest, and by physical ability and discovery including limitations. A self governed by the will of the body, muscle memory and brute memory of pleasure and pain, fear and desire and their concomitant impulses.
    The mature, linguistic mind is creative. Every word or sentence thought is an act of creation as constructed as any painting, building or any other endeavor of artistry. It is not, however, as creative as birth. For no act of artistry, however complex, exists independently of its embellishers. There is always a peculiar, limit of time that cannot be avoided, an "Arch of Time" if you will.
    But what of the sense of self not "fabricated" or "sculpted" by the linguistic mind? The consciousness of the body with its reflexes, muscle memory, organs, conscious physical operations and its primal, instinct for survival at all cost? How does that grok in this discussion? The creativity of the body might have no parallel in the linguistic mind. Unless the linguistic mind also reaches a certain puberty that allows it to…mate with other minds. What this could produce would have to be differentiated from normal linguistic product.
    It seems to me that there are two wills. The will of the body and the will of the linguistic mind. The "intention" of the linguistic mind, regardless of its subjectivity, is different and may be opposed to the "instincts" of the body. The will of the linguistic mind cannot restrain the will of the body; but it can use memory to foretell the will of the body and thus learn to avoid circumstances that "cause" the linguistic mind to be overriden.

13. Is there a video on "Theory of Self"? Experiments on animals have shown that cats, for example, have it, and birds don't. I believe that experiments on babies have shown that it develops over time. It is certainly related to the subject of this interview.

14. immersive dialogue

15. Hmm? He just has a gut feeling! Yep, this guy has convinced me….but not (what about) !

16. Hmm? Plasticity? The brains learning capacity, purely through Plasticity? There seems to be a fault with the “seaming” (seeming?) machine!

17. It would seem that the notion of epigenetics has not entered the thinking here.

18. Consciousness is projected from within our subconscious processes.. subconscious processes are programs learned based on our individual and collective experiences based on our environment downloaded via our senses .. to understand the conscious mind we must first understand the subconscious .. we as humans often develop ideas that sometimes dont work out to well for us .. maybe the catalyst for change isn't in the education but in a shift in perspective.. understand the subconscious mind first 👌🏿🗝☯️

19. Sooo, just to play with the concept of God for a moment ( a concept, and it seems a concept every human culture without "outside influences" has had), God is either a single, simple bacterium or the lightning that sparked synthetic chemicals into the reactions that then produced the carbon-based molecules "necessary" for life. They next coalesced into life.
    As for language, no one "thinks" in a language. Humans think in "understanding", but not complete understanding. Sometimes one doesn't understand a concept (thought), and it takes time to. Also, it is difficult and takes time to put thoughts into a language, any language, even ones own language, because it is not thoroughly understood and finding the "right words" doesn"t come easily, quickly or naturally.
    Consciousness doesn't arise in or from the brain. We humans "arise into consciousness". Consciousness is singular. There is no plural of the word. There is only one consciousness and we arise into it. Lose consciousness and "arise" an hour later and it is still there and everyone else is/was still in it while you were not.

    Put this all together and you have………………………………………. I'm not really sure.

20. Some present day thinking about the evolution of language, such as current focus of Noam Chomsky, notes that language must have developed after the human mind had developed semantic or symbolic abilities. The question arises as to how and why evolution would have selected for minds with semantic abilities before there was any use for such via language. Hypothesis include what is called "saltation"…changes in dna that create a useful ability which may not get used for 10s of thousands of years. In other words it's not just evolution by selection but also by fairly random seeming stuff that becomes hereditary even before it gets used in a way that would favor hereditary passing forward.
    This newish kind of thinking about evolution makes it a bit fanciful in addition to brute selection of the fittest.

21. Funny, I thought he was a clueless doofus. His point about reading and writing is simply ridiculous. Kuhn zeroed right on in it and his retort was all bluster. He hangs much on it. He ovetstates Chomsky's turn from a universal grammar.

    He has a deep need to see all mental activity as computation. It is demonstrably not. Guys like this are just in love with binary on-off circuits and WANT us to be nothing else. But ones and zeroes never have an orgasm or feel loved.

    The lack of distinction between sentience, the field of conscious experience and the contents of experience, lumping all together as "consciousness" plagues this whole series.

22. LOOKS LIKE THIS GUY HADN'T ACTUALLY CONSIDERED SIGN LANGUAGE VERY SERIOUSLY TO JUST DISMISS YOU LIKE THAT AND KEEP GOING ABOUT HIS POINT

23. Did pre-hyoid speech preclude enlightenment?

24. 9:45 "We dont come pre-programmed to be conscious," Sure, and that's because consciousness isn't programmed. I mean, how do you program subjectivity or subjective awareness?… How do you code for something that doesn't even conform to purely physical, mathematical, or biological properties?

25. The art of over analysis is endless as vast as the galaxies….we convince and confuse ourselves all the time…can be exciting at times 😅😂😅

26. Benjamin Lee Whorf?
    Is our symbolic representation universal or is it relativistic to our cultural development and thus personal development?
    Do we acquire consciousness in a relativistic way?
    Do “we” all view reality in the same light? Not talking about German vs English (for example) but perhaps the realities of the English-speaker-consciousness vs the Hopi.

27. Go play tennis. Tennis does not need language. Play tennis definitely will lead our consciousness closer to truth. Discussions in words will increase conscious confusion!?
    Go play piano, it is a language definitely will lead our consciousness closer to truth.

28. Does consciousness enable language? In my limited opinion, it sort of does. Consciousness gives rise to learning. Languages are learned. Language and all communications tend to accelerate learning.

29. So, The development of Language and Consciousness, is two sides of the 'same coin'.
    In the Eternal Life, the Circuit-Principle is absolutely basic, for all and any development.
    The Plant-Kingdom is the first Developing-Zone in the Developing-Circuit,
    Let us just mention, that the Masculine-Princip, Sending, and the Feminine-Princip, Receiving, is the most basic in the Organ-Structure of the Living Beings, but it is also, 'the two legs' that all and any communication walk on.
    In the Plant-Kingdom sending and receiving is mostly of chemical nature.
    So, this is the beginning of the development of a whole new language and consciousness.
    The Campell-monkeys is the (until now) first/best example of word-bending (gramma) in the Animal-kingdom.
    (Language without mathematic is not language, and Mathematic without language is not mathematic)
    So, gradually the language develops parallel with the Consciousness.
    Esperanto is the last step on a long development, it is 100% mathematic. (International Language)
    In the future We will communicate direct by sending/receiving Living Pictures, called Whole-Psychic Korrespondance.
    (We can get an slight idea, if We think about the nature of dreams)

    Well, You might wondering, but this is somehow the headlines in our actual language- and Consciousness-development

30. So they erased my comment, pointing to emergent anomalies in structure of language itself, i see no reason why anybody would do that. Dobth it was in interest of CCT team, they would understand my point wasn't biased or insulting, so it must be corrupt agents using every influence they can to silence the independent creative thinking.
    Censorship can only bring us closer to turd, this is why philosophy can't develop today, because of people connected to shadow powers who pretend they're just doing their job, but actually use their position to promote their personal interests.
    This is another example consciousness can't emerge from language or morals because it can exist where there are none, and became something else where ethical values are broken.

31. SOUL is the authority of your self correction. Sound reason. It's developed in your communication from the feminine heart of intuition to the masculine mind of logic for self examination and full disclosure to mutual consent and resolution.

32. Excellent presentation 🤠

33. Awareness is known by awareness alone.

34. Very deep & profound, indeed
    At last someone who knows what he is talking about, hope they give him more time 4 details.
    Actually He has a point, we are using our brains in new ways:
    likely Broca's area had other things to do rather than language

35. These videos are very intellectually entertaining.

36. It's unfortunate covering this topic without awareness of Sanskrit. The Sanskrit alphabet manifests as cakra "petals" as consciousness expands into each tier detailed expression.

37. Dear Robert I have one request from you. Please make the videos with subtitle. I regularly watch your every video and I really appreciate you. But some times It is difficult for me to catch every sentence because I am not English national. I am from Pakistan. I am sure that so many other non english native would also face the same problem like me. It would be easy for us to understand if there are subtitle. You are doing great job because things for which we need to read a big book but you clear it in just 15 to 20 minutes video. I love watching your the stuff you share and enjoy it by discussing with my friends..

38. Dear Robert I have one request from you. Please make the videos with subtitle. I regularly watch your every video and I really appreciate you. But some times It is difficult for me to catch every sentence because I am not English national. I am from Pakistan. I am sure that so many other non english native would also face the same problem like me. You are doing great job because things for which we need to read a big book but you clear it in just 15 to 20 minutes video. I love watching your the stuff you share and enjoy it by discussing with my friends..

39. Language is a castle made up of bricks (words) and mortar to keep it all together (grammar) as for consciousness, well, it's the furniture and the windows, the doors and curtains and carpets.

40. There's only 1 language that is precise is Sanskrit. It also helps in self realization with the help of Mantras that invoke the inner reality

41. Consciousness, observer and the world is the triune xyz.

42. "Brute awareness" is a good term. The problem of other minds makes it's seem unlikely that we can draw a line in biological development and label the entity a zombie before that point in time. Makes me think of a phrenology of ensoulment.

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