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Reddit mentions of The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
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So the primary clues and references are often more behavioral (clinical or historical) than cellular or genetic? Or the overlap or correlation of the two?
This book: http://www.amazon.com/Recursive-Mind-Origins-Language-Civilization/dp/0691145474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381020234&sr=1-1&keywords=the+recursive+mind
got me thinking more and more about the facet of human culture having taken on a life of its own, an evolution of its own, for which the biology of the species seems just more of an underlying grid of infrastructure than deterministic of changes at the edge. Like a software that has found work arounds for any hardware limitations, even at the cost of efficiency. The book references basic associative capabilities growing into the capacity to name, conceptualize, generalize, and abstract, and then to perform layers of comparisons/computations on these building blocks.
It looks like your colleague Rich Keefe (Duke?) might get a lot of clues of function from examples of dysfunction. I was once married into a family with multiple examples of schizophrenia, and there is nothing like the pain of disability to sharpen one's appreciation for how the process ever works as well as it does.