Bickerton+Reading

I started this page because I needed a place to write about things not associated with the weekly article and since all class centers around Bickerton This can be a forum for your random connections made with the Chapter Reading. Maybe a good forum to discuss our Wiki Project _Joey

D. Bickerton is making a strong case for a need to analyze the feedback loops that perpetuate an awareness that allows for a growth of awareness. My wording is a little vague in concept but the intricacies of its manifestation can be seen in the real life scenario in which it plays. Especially in the spread of ideas from parent to child and the complexities of a developing mind to organize data into a form that can be reflected upon and reused. This can be exemplified by the natural transformation of a Creole language from one that is considered Pidgin. Understanding that language has evolved from primitive communication lays ground work to begin to view the benefits of developing a complicated language and why was able to develop in the first place. Many people in conversation show they feel that animals are being unfairly compared to humans in that human communication is more advanced somehow makes animal communication inferior. Actually it is the case on both accounts. Although animal communication suits that species fine in the current evolutionary outfit, our form communications allows us advanced problem solving techniques that allow for larger population and longer life expectancy. None of it would have been possible if our ancestors mind had not made what I call a "conscious leap." I think of it as the birth of language could have been happening in number between a group of hunters and/or a mother and child relationship or an epiphany or catastrophe that during the time allowed an advanced communication system to develop into what we call a theory of mind. One could imagine how quickly this "fad" created a scenario in which it is normal to think you know how one must feel. This empathetic habit would surely be a benefit to whatever group adopted the technique for communicating. Over time this species would out survive its contemporaries replacing them in their habitat. Emotions seem to me to be our link to understanding our ties with the origins of Language. Also Chomsky ideas are still relevant but his theory, obviously profound for his era, needed redeveloping as any good theory does during its acceptance. Please be critical of criticism. The line is fine when it comes to what came first thinking or language because in fact it is a complex differential that for each step of advancement of thinking occurs a subsequent language that is developed laying ground for a new thought. I may change my mind on this but it seems that language is the, sorry for lack of a better word, "Marriage" of thought and communication.