tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post8188493556158725843..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Chris Hale's Why Reading MattersBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33998589880433098192009-02-10T12:19:00.000+00:002009-02-10T12:19:00.000+00:00Great Doc, along with swarm, Einstein and Eddingto...Great Doc, along with swarm, Einstein and Eddington the BBC is halfway to justifying its licence fee.<BR/><BR/>All they have to do to get the rest and maybe more, is take an axe to 2/3 of BBC news and spend the cash on more in depth stuff like "why reading matters"<BR/><BR/>My wife and the girls, they like story's and tittle tattle, me and the boys we like instruction manuals and taking stuff Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-19895005810323251282009-02-09T23:13:00.000+00:002009-02-09T23:13:00.000+00:00Fascinating doc. I was expecting the worst (or, ra...Fascinating doc. I was expecting the worst (or, rather, the usual) for the videogames part, but was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of the lady talking about Ico to counterbalance Greenfield's predictably uninformed blather. Has she seen a game since Donkey Kong? Unlikely.<BR/><BR/>But the part where 'gamers' were interviewed was intellectually lazy, bordering on irresponsible. To address Johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12678545794431822288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78846682743299415722009-02-09T19:23:00.000+00:002009-02-09T19:23:00.000+00:00All ready had it my sky planner. So are you saying...All ready had it my sky planner. So are you saying that Chomsky hierarchy<BR/>is a done deal? Popper had his doubts but after getting through Pinkers Blank Slate I think he despite his sometimes odd and irresponsible views proberbly deserves the nobel prize?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-54386807150562477152009-02-09T16:08:00.000+00:002009-02-09T16:08:00.000+00:00i once thought that language was absolutely centra...i once thought that language was absolutely central to human consciousness. However, it's actually a late(ish) development, but it certainly has become central, though we once made do without it. As for writing, which is believed to have originated in Uruk, yes, another thing which has really come to determine human consciousness, though again as with language, it's not absolutely central, we Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com