LANGUAGE AND REASONING IN HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS Tatiana Chernigovskaya St. Petersburg State University Part IV. - презентация

1 LANGUAGE AND REASONING IN HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS Tatiana Chernigovskaya St. Petersburg State University Part IV

2 Yury Lotman Parallels between bi- hemispheric brain and culture Bi-polarity as a minimal necessary structure of semiotic organization … on all the levels of the thinking process

3 Lev Vygotsky A dialogue between different individuals grows into a dialogue within one brain

4 Vjach. Vs. Ivanov Information exchange within the brain and within the society… are different aspects of the same process

5 Mikhail Bakhtin A text only begins to live as a result of interaction of two minds – such as its true nature …The dialogue penetrates the whole domain of the living human thinking

6 So - The Right and the Left Brains: Hosting different languages=codes=signs Acting separately? - Partly Interpreting differently? - Yes Sharing memory? - Not totally

7 So, what is our species specific feature – language or broader cognitive abilities, primarily social? Are there any specific faculties?

8 All agree ToM is central for successful cognitive and social development, while the ability of mind and brain to use recursive rules as a species-specific feature is still under the discussion.

9 Human beings are able to impute mental states of others. Tomasello treats ToM as a specie-specific endowment. However, anthropologists and primatologists believe apes (and other higher species) also have it I was happy to hear that Tomasello has changed his mind