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    In the last year or so (and going back many decades) there has been extensive claims by major computational scientists, engineers, and others that AGI (artificial general intelligence) is 5 or 10 years away, but without a scintilla of scientific evidence, for a broad body of these claims: Computers will become conscious, have a “theory of mind,” think and reason, will become more intelligent than humans, and so on. But the claims are science fiction, not science. This article reviews evidence fo…Read more
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    The neural, evolutionary, developmental, and bodily basis of metaphor
    New Ideas in Psychology 23 (2): 74-95. 2005.
    We propose that there are four fundamental kinds of metaphor that are uniquely mapped onto specific brain ‘‘networks’’ and present preliterate (i.e., evolutionary, including before the appearance of written language in the historical record), prelinguistic (i.e., developmental, before the appearance of speech in human development), and extralinguistic (i.e., neuropsychological, cognitive) evidence supportive of this view. We contend that these basic metaphors are largely nonconceptual and entail…Read more
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    The Bodily Basis of Thought
    New Ideas in Psychology 18 (1): 23-40. 2000.
    Classical cognitivist and connectionist models posit a Cartesian disembodiment of mind assuming that brain events can adequately explain thought and related notions such as intellect. Instead, we argue for the bodily basis of thought and its continuity beyond the sensorimotor stage. Indeed, there are no eternally fixed representations of the external world in the "motor system," rather, it is under the guidance of both internal and external factors with important linkages to frontal, parietal, c…Read more
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    How does the brain function in communion with the body to create complex thought and emotion? "Mind Embodied: The Evolutionary Origins of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Modern Humans" begins with an investigation of the embodied basis of complex cognitive abilities and sets out a theory of their evolutionary and developmental origins, their autochthonous beginnings in other species, their appearance at the margins of humankind, and their culmination in a panoply of highly elaborated abilities an…Read more
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    Mind, Dance, and Pedagogy
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (4): 37-42. 2002.
    Explores the role of dance education both inside and outside the arts.