CARTA: Imagination: Lera Boroditsky - Building Complex Knowledge with Language and Imagination

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. The ability to cognitively transcend the physical is one of the very hallmarks of human intelligence. Lera Boroditsky, UC San Diego. Recorded on 06/01/2018. [7/2018] [Show ID: 33812]

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins

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[carinacorrea]

I absolutely adore her presentations, speeches, ideas, research and sense of humour 😊

[crisstones]

Lera is a wondrous, inspiring, insightful and captivating presenter! I am perpetually in debt with YouTube’s algorithms for bringing me here!

[vil]

What an eye opener to listen to her content... her voice, composure, presentation style, sense of humor - wow, wow... awesome!

[陳浩恩-vy]

I just finished her speech "How Language shapes the way we think" it's was really helpful, and when I saw this video, I thought why she looks like the speaker of the speech I just saw, it looks similar. I just realized is she. and I saw many of her speech, on my Youtube recommendation. I'm an English learner.

[shahbazhaider]

Lera Boroditsky's presentation can be another way to understand critical discourse analysis or vice versa.

[bobz]

Your TED talk, this talk, and your Santa Fe talk on how language shapes the way we think have tied in so well in my readings and studies in consciousness. As consciousness progresses in a child language must be the tool that lets it mature! All human societies appear to have language, if they don’t they create one. So it must be the key player in consciousness. The debate continues as to where consciousness resides, the brain, or some frequency of quark mechanics. I found your talks fascinating and as mind opening as a magic mushroom (just kidding, they aren’t legal in California yet.) I loved all three of your talks. Thank you!

[HarryNicNicholas]

hedgehogs making thin pastry is a prickly subject. i hope there are more talks about language relating to science, as she says most of the research is data collected from american students so aboriginals doing tests might have alarmingly different results. i'm fascinated by language in science, how much of science is right or wrong becuase of the direction language takes us in, like being able to describe the impossible "when an irresistible force meets an immovable object", obviously impossible, but we can say it.

[oliviaazutillo]

Brilliant ideas! I watched and listened to all her presentations on Youtube. Can I have some more? If all my teachers are as articulate as she is, I will always be enrolled in courses :-)

[karentheisen]

Excellent and fascinating talk. One aspect of the talk however brings up a dilemma. Time travel is presented as though it is a concept that emerged from how we think of time and space (english speakers anyway I'm presuming). However, the reality is that time travel was invented by a single person, just as all inventions are created - they all come from a single person and never from groups. Inventors change reality by creating new concepts and things. Once these concepts and things are assimilated they then become conventional or everyday symbols, at that point they are part of a new reality. They will eventually be replaced though by other concepts and things that are invented by someone in the future. That is the nature of reality. It does not change from group think, it changes because of individuals who have imagination, creativity and the ability to solve problems in new ways.

[prateekraina]

Great lecture... BTW Did anyone notice the @20:00 time's up cough... And how her facial expressions change just a tiny bit? Same thing happens a bit more clearly at @18:34 when someone coughs in the back and then someone sitting upfront gives her a signal, at which point she brings on her last slide.

[nordeenabdellah]

Time and spatial orientation are very interesting.

[Lukeclout]

She can keep all her students awake in class

[AJ-qdcs]

Brilliant lady, advancing the knowledge of how we think and rising a lot of questions on the way there.

I have few comments, but my starting thought is to not dismiss the concept of reincarnation in itself, but accept it as possible as part of some sort of generic memory that would transfer learnings from one generation to the next... Why not ? What are instincts otherwise but imprinted genetic responses to certain environment stimuli ?

[ivechang]

Thanks! More fuel for my thoughts. ♡ive

[jeffinrodriguez]

We use spatial terms to talk about all things; concrete and abstract. Time's no exception unless its expressed in mathematical terms.

[Tymyra]

Dear Miss,
Study ancient languages, and have to tell you there is so much more you actually could be suprised about. At least it would be very interesting.Semantics can blow mind.

[rolandflabber]

Hello Lera. Very interesting presentation. I thought about this 'left and right' theory very often myself. I'm just an ordinary man nothing to do with your profession. We know the origin of both types of writings. How does this influence our mind and thinking, we don't know. We have some great personalities president Bill Clinton and Obama, writings with the left hand, others with the right hand. Is there some personality differences between them? We also know that Jewish people lighting two candles on Shabbat night. One for the present one for the past. There isn't lightening for the future because the future is uncertain. But if we can make an imaginary number (s) and enlightening the future I can win on lotto millions of dollars. Why didn't gave us the G'd spirit the third candle to lighten?

[waynakins]

Sound guy needs to EQ microphone, lots of ringing. Horrible Audio.

[edwinkimambo]

If something that made us walk is Language and never activities..just Pleasure of knowing

[gatorho]

Everything I would like in a women intelligent, beautiful, stunning piercing eyes and my standards of virte in a strong women.I pray I could one day find someone of similar traits. -if I could flow thru time I would use it to find her. Yep lol retaining 2the video it was very interesting, was time worth:)