Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and ...

(1) A programming language that uses symbols, or mnemonics, for expressing operations and operands. All modern programming languages are symbolic languages. (2) A language that manipulates symbols ...

How does one person actually communicate to another person? In fact all communication follows from shared symbolic codes in the brain. Thoughts are never directly communicated between people. All ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...

We've had many postings of late on human nature from guest-blogger Tom Clark and from Marcelo, Stu, and me, so I'll go ahead and continue the thread. I'll first consider the concept of a self, then ...