Tag Archive: Creativity

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How I became a Linguist: Characteristics of Intelligent Behavior

Sometime in the early nineties my mother gave me a list of Arthur Costa’s twelve characteristics of intelligent behavior.  This list actually had a lot of influence in my life as I stumbled… Read More →

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Cognitive Mindfulness #13

In the book The Artful Mind (edited by Mark Turner), Merlin Donald describes art as being characterized by seven features: Art is aimed at influencing the minds of an audience, and may therefore… Read More →

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Ethnocentrism in Parenting

I just started reading an ethnomusicology book and I was struck by this definition of ethnocentrism.  Being an anthropologist I am conscious of the dangers of ethnocentrism in my practice and I can… Read More →

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Cognitive Mindfulness #9(b)

This is part two of Cognitive Mindfulness #9, and continues the Evans & Green passage. “The difference between the domains of TIME and SPACE is that while TIME has the property of progression,… Read More →

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Cognitive Mindfulness #9(a)

This passage covers a discussion of the conceptual domains of space and time while introducing the quantities of each domain and their instantiation in reality.  I like this passage because it differentiates basic… Read More →

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Cognitive Science & Engineering by Deductive Reasoning

Here is a brief passage from my book The Art of War Against Boredom.  I wrote this passage around 8 years ago, and while it is influenced by my background in descriptive linguistics… Read More →

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Cognitive Mindfulness #4

A quote from one of my favorite books… “The universe is a living, creative, experimenting experience of discovering what’s possible at all levels of scale, from microbe to cosmos.” “Life’s natural tendency is… Read More →

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