Denis Bouchard
2010
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 42-49, 2010
Human language is the result of a cascade of consequences from an initial mutation which provided a new ''representational'' capacity to some mirror neurons. This initial mutation has high evolvability. The mutation coincidentally allowed representations of the two substances of ...MORE ⇓
Human language is the result of a cascade of consequences from an initial mutation which provided a new ''representational'' capacity to some mirror neurons. This initial mutation has high evolvability. The mutation coincidentally allowed representations of the two substances of signs to meet in human brains, thus accounting directly for signs. Recursivity is a result of the self-organization triggered by the choatic system that emerged from this system of signs.