CraigD, I couldn't have said it better myself!
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Based on the reading I’ve been doing recently on the subject ( Lakoff’s Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh), I don’t think any of the academics and technicals working in the field feel it’ll be possible to gain a good understanding of the brain without a lot of neuroimaging - MRI, PET, and more intrusive, “mindblowing” techniques. The idea that linguistic analysis alone is sufficient to explain the brain and behavior appears to have been thoroughly considered and rejected. |
Lakoff is a good source. I have those books you mentioned, as well as his
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things...good references.
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 I think the point behind the wager, however, is right on, and a good example of thinking of embracing the concept of the embodied mind. |
Embodied cognition is on the rise, and I think it will be in the best interest of neuroscience to follow its progress.
