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The Power and Danger of Language

It can be

Sep 30, 2021

The Power and Danger of Language

Sep 30, 2021

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Age of Awareness

The Cultural Exoskeleton and Its Embodiment

It’s a myriad of evolving structures in which human supra-organisms grow, act, and change themselves and those structures

Dec 5, 2023

The Cultural Exoskeleton and Its Embodiment

Dec 5, 2023

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What is a Sunset?

Sunsets happen every day. They can invoke feelings of beauty and awe in all of us. But what, really, is a sunset?

May 30, 2020

What is a Sunset?

May 30, 2020

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My Most Important Conclusion

It might help us all to acknowledge it

Jan 16, 2022

My Most Important Conclusion

Jan 16, 2022

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Reflections

Some make us look foolish,

Mar 1, 2021

Reflections

Mar 1, 2021

Delusional Man, Delusional Country, Delusional Species

We like to think we are special, despite contrary evidence

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Delusional Man, Delusional Country, Delusional Species

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Our Personal Shells and Their Consequences

Like hermit crabs we humans inhabit shells for protection and as displays of intimidation and attraction. But their increasing size and…

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Our Personal Shells and Their Consequences

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The Republican Party is currently a Dysfunctional Human Supra-Organism

Language gives us humans great shared creative power, but also great destructive power, including self-destructive power

Oct 29

The Republican Party is currently a Dysfunctional Human Supra-Organism

Oct 29

John, I agree with you about the importance of combining syntax with semantics and pragmatics in…

There are several kinds of human language brhavior pragmatically that differ in the nature of the environment(s) in which the speaker and…

Oct 15

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Age of Awareness

The Emotional Dimension of Human Knowledge

We learn from what makes us feel good or bad, regardless of whether it is “true”

Aug 24

The Emotional Dimension of Human Knowledge

Aug 24

Jim Mason

Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership

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