This may not be the best YA forum for a discussion/debate that I want to cause However?

Question

I do not see another location that would have as many individuals that have done their home work on evolution. What I want is a cognitive discussion on the evolution of Higher Cognitive states in humans. In addition to brain evolution I want to also include the physiological changes required for the acquisition of language.

My only question at this time is; who is willing to have this discussion with me?

Fry - Their are always individuals in this forum that make ardent arguments for evolution and seem to poses some degree of education on the matter.

Lab Girl - The extended TNGS points out that the initial development of conscious states depends on interaction with perceptual categorization guided by value systems.

Answer 1

Woohoo, I am!

Answer 2

Language acquisition is a HUGE topic that contains its own college course.

The "development" (not the same as evolution) of higher cognitive states is a process that continues throughout the lifetime. This is addressed by Jean Piaget.

Answer 3

My guess is that your claim is that Evolution doesn't allow for physiological changes in the brain that enabled the acquisition of Language?

In reality, it must. Evolution is a result of small changes that are adopted through an increased ability to procreate. As pre-human behavior changed due to environment, certain traits made procreation more successful which rewarded that trait by including it in with survivors who adapted to the changing environment.

For instance, early humans may have been able to survive better because of an adaption to the brain which allowed them to communicate a little better and hunt more effectively. Then as a result of added protein in their diets, the brain was able to enlarge, overtime. Creatures who have an increased ability to communicate have a better ability to adapt and survive, so that trait was continually enforced through procreation. The environment has generally dictated which creatures are successful in evolution and which ones aren't.

Now Humans dominate most of the earth, because of our ability to communicate helps us adapt quicker, survive longer, and procreated more successfully.

Answer 4

Sounds good, but you shouldn't do it on Y!A. Find a chat room and log the discussion. You could try and use this as a forum to set it up though.

I just don't think that discussions actually work on this site because of the format.

Answer 5

Not without the operationalizations of terms like "higher cognitive states."

Answer 6

It appears that these changes may have happened long before anyone would have been considered a homosapien .

Love ad blessings Don

Answer 7

i'm not an evolutionary biologist nor an authority on evolution of better Cognitive state in people. have you ever study "Dragons of Eden" via Carl Sagan. super artwork on evolution of the human strategies. @>}----}---- advert

Answer 8

I'd love to see a copy of this discussion ... unfortunately I'm not learned enough to have such a discussion with you. Would you send me a copy or let me know where I can see it if on another forum? Thanks!

Answer 9

Probably someone in the BIOLOGY section. Why would you POSSIBLY want to look in the religion section for that?


French Fry?

Answer 10

That discussion would be way over my head but I would love to read about it.

Answer 11

A discussion that neither side can prove? Good luck!