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In how the body shapes the way we think, rolf pfeifer and josh bongard. Conceptual blending, a process that operates below the level of consciousness and involves connecting two concepts to create new meaning, can be used to explain abstract thought, creativity, and. By now, we ve covered more than 3,000 books and grown, changed, and nuanced our perspectives in the process. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodimentin our morphology and the material properties of our bodies. I think the idea is that we recognize that we apply meaning to things.
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The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world. How sound transforms the way we think, feel, and buy. Until recently, cognitive science focused on such mental functions as problem solving, grammar, and patternthe functions in which the human mind most closely. There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures.
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