tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.comments2024-01-22T21:37:55.035+09:00Philosophical Investigations for Applied LinguisticsYosuke YANASEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-85339659277529015802013-09-05T14:33:24.314+09:002013-09-05T14:33:24.314+09:00Really useful.
Thanks for postingReally useful.<br />Thanks for postingenglish loverhttp://www.google.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-13949832803353557702013-08-22T18:19:27.108+09:002013-08-22T18:19:27.108+09:00This is fantastic!This is fantastic!Timmyhttp://bestellipticalsmachine.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-60354148714528126162013-03-07T10:15:46.730+09:002013-03-07T10:15:46.730+09:00Samuel kindly gave the following comment, but I ma...Samuel kindly gave the following comment, but I made a stupid mechanical mistake and erased it from the blog. I apologize to Samuel. I pasted the copy which fortunately remained in my e-mail account. Thank you Samuel for your comment. It's really nice of you to share with us your great experience as a police officer. Yosuke<br /><br />*****<br /><br />Hi! i watched this mtv more than 10 years ago when i was a police officer. The first time i watched it, i cried. i never grew tired or bored watching it and every time i am moved. maybe its because i can identify with those circumstances and sometimes i just feel like doing something away from the rule book and go according to my heart ie. the "right thing". <br /><br />nonetheless thank you for a nice review of this priceless mtv. <br /><br /><br />SamuelYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-36103611115954727952012-12-14T07:41:07.490+09:002012-12-14T07:41:07.490+09:00Thank you Beril for your information!
I wish I had...Thank you Beril for your information!<br />I wish I had more time just sit back and read books silently, and of course, listen to interesting podcasts like the one you kindly introduced.<br />Cheers,<br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-769505882475570772012-12-14T06:42:44.085+09:002012-12-14T06:42:44.085+09:00I find this summary helpful
http://philosophybites...I find this summary helpful<br />http://philosophybites.com/2008/09/adrian-moore-on.htmlBeril Tezeller Arikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132916900159582751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-4137917860074034652012-04-16T07:08:39.562+09:002012-04-16T07:08:39.562+09:00Dear Matteo
Thank you very much for your informat...Dear Matteo<br /><br />Thank you very much for your information.<br /><br />I had a very quick look at the paper "Conscious and unconscious thought in artificial grammar learning". It is indeed the first time in many years for me to read an rigorous experimental study where dozens' of other experimental studies are specifically examined in a detailed way to produce another experiment for a very focused research question. I used to read psycholinguistics papers when I wrote my MA thesis many years ago, but I became more interested in philosophy later, largely because I found (or I began to think) that pedagogy has more to do with undefined, complex issues in the real world situations to which rigorous experimental studies cannot have direct connection. I began to like the integrative nature of philosophy.<br /><br />However, I found the paper very interesting. As you say, the issue is related to my field. I also learned (once again) that philosphical arguments must be based on this kind of rigorous experimental studies. I'll read the other paper later.<br /><br />Right now, by the way, I'm reading "Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition", one focus of which is the controversy in SLA between the quantitative and experimental congitivism (the "mainstream") and the socially oriented, qualitative and exploratory studies (the "alternatives"). <br />http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.jp/2012/04/david-block-2003-social-turn-in-second.html<br />I have more sympathy to the latter these days, but the paper you kindly introduced this time reminded me of the virtue of the rigorous experimental studies. <br /><br />Thank you very much again for your kind suggestion. You always expeand my horizons. I really appreciate your help.<br /><br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-22310704999574714942012-04-16T01:52:29.134+09:002012-04-16T01:52:29.134+09:00maybe these researches are more related to your fi...maybe these researches are more related to your field! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-74167784832307400152012-04-16T01:51:02.805+09:002012-04-16T01:51:02.805+09:00dear Yosuke,
i've started to focus ( always &q...dear Yosuke,<br />i've started to focus ( always "focus"...I love this word :D) my attention on some trials on the advantages of grammar implicit learnings...and the recent findings on this issue are (as I can see them) strongly related to studies on consciousness and neuroscience ..<br />http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Zoltan_Dienes/Mealor%20&%20Dienes%202012%20no%20loss%20gambling.pdf<br /><br />http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Zoltan_Dienes/Mealor%20&%20Dienes%202012%20UTT%20in%20AGL.pdf<br /><br /><br />Maybe these trials can be very useful in some other instances(they argue in favour of the "two process theory",and damasio is a "supporter" of this theory, but in a milder version )... if you don't know Dienes works I really hope you find these papers interesting.. ciao MatteoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-85013813824067871092012-04-13T18:26:04.984+09:002012-04-13T18:26:04.984+09:00With his kind permission, I paste Dwight Atkinson&...With his kind permission, I paste Dwight Atkinson's personal email here.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />I looked at your summary of my 2010 article and it looks good. One thing I'm thinking about these days though is how alignment can take place even in seemingly unpromising circumstances, like some (e.g. grammar-focused) ESL/EFL classrooms. I guess it depends on the engagement of the learner (as I talked about it at the end of the paper, and I think when I intro'ed the second sociocognitive principle too. Some people can be highly engaged in studying grammar. They might see it or experience it as an elaborate game--a kind of puzzle, or what not. Others might identify strongly with the teacher--even be in love with him or her (you know, in the true Platonic sense of course!). Or they might be super competitive on exams and so engaged/motivated/invested (or whatever you want to call it) in that sense. I think all of these could lead to a kind of engagement and alignment with the teacher and/or learning task. I guess we see this in the data in our 2007 article and the 2010 article too. Ako and Tomo are highly engaged/aligned, even if the topic is deadly dull (but some people's judgments, at least) grammar. At any rate, I'm not disagreeing with your point about boring EFL classrooms in Japan (and elsewhere--I could tell you what I've seen in India, for instance, and it might shock you). In fact, I agree--engaging classrooms and teacher should (and do) promote language learning. It's just that I think what is engaging is in the eyes of the beholder--one person's deadly boring thing may be another person's most exciting thing.<br /><br />That's one thing I'm thinking these days, anyway.<br /><br />Best,<br />D.Yosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-57519503875659813992012-04-03T09:46:44.454+09:002012-04-03T09:46:44.454+09:00Hi, Matteo
TI was in Boston for American Associa...Hi, Matteo <br /><br />TI was in Boston for American Association of Applied Linguistics and it took such a long time to respond. <br /><br />The field of applied linguistics, as far as I can see, has not been paying much attention to neuroscience, particularly philosophically oriented studies.<br /><br />I'll read "Redirect" first. hank you again for your advice. <br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-13719160140678823292012-03-28T19:42:42.472+09:002012-03-28T19:42:42.472+09:00Yosuke.. a little advice for you :
strangers to ou...Yosuke.. a little advice for you :<br />strangers to ourselves is too much non-consciousness direct and it lacks totally of concepts like mindfulness and recent findings on this field. If you are interested read it.. but it's not one of my favourites. In ten years tim wilson's view has changed a lot... maybe "redirect" is more near to damasio's and other modern views. ciao yosuke matteoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-76385109492933880482012-03-28T05:35:52.352+09:002012-03-28T05:35:52.352+09:00Hi, Matteo
Thank you very much again for your kin...Hi, Matteo<br /><br />Thank you very much again for your kind information. With your suggestion, I've just purchased "Redirect" on Kindle edition. <br /><br />As I looked at the Amazon site, I just relized Tim Wilson also wrote "Strangers to ourselves", which I bought and left unread for a long time. It's good to have many books to read. The only problem is to find time and peace of mind to enjoy good reading. <br /><br />Kahneman's book is "not so new" as you say. But what's interesting is the way he demonstrates many things with very simple experiments. This is somewhat like Ramachandran.<br /><br />Thank you again<br /><br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-81821804658696082722012-03-27T21:21:51.697+09:002012-03-27T21:21:51.697+09:00Dear Yosuke
i've recently study the kanheman&...Dear Yosuke <br />i've recently study the kanheman's book and I've found it very interesting (not so "new" perhaps, if you know what I mean,many arguments was yet in the air...).<br />I know little about gazzaniga but I want to focus your attention on another book "redirect" (Tim wilson).<br />Is interesting in the way it presents the "story editing approach" (gazzaniga is a follower of the same approach)...and it's very courious that story editing is a different way ,as I see it, to talk about conscious modification (explicit modification) of implicit dispositions... This issue remember me something... :D matteoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-31442806846086006922012-03-21T08:14:26.838+09:002012-03-21T08:14:26.838+09:00Dear Matteo
Thank you for your two comments (her...Dear Matteo <br /><br />Thank you for your two comments (here and in the Edelman's article). I'm currently between trips and I can only write a short reply now.<br /><br />I entirely agree that we should not underestimate the functions of consciousness. I share the assumption of the theory of evolution that a feature a life has acquired and retained for a long time SHOULD have some advantages for its survival and reproduction. Consciousness should be no exception.<br /><br />I'm currently reading "Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain" by Michael S. Gazzaniga and "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman and thinking about "nonconsciousness-consciousness system" again. Contemporary neuroscience is just fascinating.<br /><br />As you may already know, I recently read "The feeling of what happens" and "Looking for Spinoza" (I haven't written a summary article of the latter yet). I also try to interpret the skill learning of traditional martial arts from the framework of neuroscience. Life is never boring.<br />http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.jp/2012/02/damasio-2000-feeling-of-what-happens.html<br />http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.jp/2012/03/comparing-foreign-language.html<br /><br />One last thing: you're inviting Damasio to Italy! This is WOW! <br /><br />Let's keep in touch.<br /><br />Best regards<br /><br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-46047717100319885432012-03-20T23:29:12.645+09:002012-03-20T23:29:12.645+09:00I've done a little confusion with posting issu...I've done a little confusion with posting issue... I resend the comment and I hope this time without error in posting it.<br /><br />Consciousness is "wider than the sky," but its capacity is not as wide as we wanted to believe.... wonderful....<br /><br />but we can also say :<br />nonconsciousness-consciousness system is effectively wider than the sky... as we can now (in our days..tnx to the great works of these unbelievable scientists-thinkers : Damasio, edelman, dennett , the late wilson etc..)argue. MatteoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-29347920029109690342012-03-19T03:17:55.770+09:002012-03-19T03:17:55.770+09:00Hi yosuke... I'me the anonimous of the others ...Hi yosuke... I'me the anonimous of the others posts!!! I'm a sociology student here in intaly and I want to make you aware of the fact that Anotnio Damasio maybe in october will come here in italy (pescara, abruzzo),on my invitation... to assist to a convention on modern behevioural and cognitive approaches. (I will talk too in the convention :D).<br />After this i want to make another (very small) correction to your very valid post. I hope you can read soon this comment (if you want to contact me francocesarini@hotmail.it) and I hope it can be useful too..:<br /><br />you say: "Damasio further argues that our nonconsciousness not only reasons but also has a larger cognitive capacity.<br /><br /><br />All this goes to say that I very much like the notion that our cognitive unconscious is capable of reasoning and has a larger “space” for operations than the conscious counterpart. (p. 275)<br /><br /><br />If our nonconsciousness is capable of excecuting complex cognitive tasks than our conciousness, do we ever need consciouness at all? "... but let me add a thing... your interpretation is good but it can lead to a misunderstanding...:<br />"larger capacity" is not a synonimous of a "best cognitive load". The unconscious... to say it in simple terms can do many things... can reason..on more things than consciousness... but not approfonditely... How much of one’s cognitive capacity is being used towards a particular task at any given time is called the cognitive load. we can say... as damasio says (and as you have said... but not clearly) that unconscious can reason on much more things than consciousness but not so deeply. " What they do suggest is that nonconscious processes are capable of some sort of reasoning, far more than they are usually thought to be, and that this reasoning, once it has been properly trained by past experience and when time is scarce, may lead to beneficial decisions. " . Focus yourself on "when the time is scarce". Don't forget that in damsio view...and in mine :D.. unconscious is setted on dispositions and his ability on reason is yes large...but not "reason focused". Tnx for the post... I've saved it in my pc memory and If you need to contact me or answer to me you can do on your post or on my email. MatteoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-79027105861811927712011-10-15T22:02:06.779+09:002011-10-15T22:02:06.779+09:00Dear Mr or Ms Anonymous,
Thank you for your inform...Dear Mr or Ms Anonymous,<br />Thank you for your information!<br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-59117643393675513742011-10-15T21:26:57.472+09:002011-10-15T21:26:57.472+09:00dear yosuke... here's another important (cruci...dear yosuke... here's another important (crucial) interview , to understand damasio point of view:<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.brnsoc.nl/en/current-news/damasio.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-27334872791620888902011-10-08T21:25:16.422+09:002011-10-08T21:25:16.422+09:00Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous
Thank you very much for...Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous<br /><br />Thank you very much for your comment and letting me know the Big Think video, which I embedded in my video blog.<br />http://yosukeyanase-video.blogspot.com/2011/10/antonio-damasio-consciousness-is-how-we.html<br /><br />You're absolutely right when you say that consciousness isn't only deliberation. Consciousness is never exactly synonymous with thought.<br />As Damasio says in the video, "acuteness of the experience" is one aspect of consciousness, and that is different from deliberation.<br /><br />Or as Edelman says, we need to make a distinction between "primary consciousness" (which includes attention, focusing or acuteness) and "higher-order consciousness" (which includes thought and deliberation).<br />http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.com/2010/07/wider-than-sky-by-gerald-edelman.html<br /><br />So I take your point, and probably the third paragraph of my conclusion section (6) in particular may be misleading to acute readers like you. (Honestly, it's not easy to read what I wrote objectively. As the writer of the text, I assume too much in it, or simply I'm less conscious than other people :D ).<br /><br />But it was really nice to read your kind comment.<br />Thank you again.<br /><br /><br />Best,<br /><br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-41204518394760167972011-10-08T18:37:38.189+09:002011-10-08T18:37:38.189+09:00great yosuke, great review... only an imprecision....great yosuke, great review... only an imprecision... <br />In the last comments to his book damasio specifies a very crucial thing:<br />Is not consciousness that is bad in the decision on the moment... but the deliberation... that is important in the long-timed decision.<br />The consciousness isn't only deliberation... He talks about "focusing" ability that improve people consciousness.<br />We can very conscious (focused) in a particulare moment (such as making a cake :D) , but we don't necessarily deliberate for every single decision or movement...<br />Please yosuke don't confuse consciousness and thought... they aren't exact synonimous.<br />For more details watch damasio on big think site, about consciousness, free will and how control our minds...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-34315196190827071912011-09-16T18:43:08.372+09:002011-09-16T18:43:08.372+09:00Hello,
It's so nice of you to leave a message...Hello, <br />It's so nice of you to leave a message!<br />This book is really interesting because it gives me multiple perspectives. Hope you'll enjoy articles to come, too.<br />YosukeYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-78262513778357262752011-09-16T13:01:00.771+09:002011-09-16T13:01:00.771+09:00I enjoyed reading this blog entry and I'm look...I enjoyed reading this blog entry and I'm looking forward to reading your future posts on the book. Thanks...Beril Tezeller Arikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132916900159582751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-14358860337041890932011-09-12T09:19:34.443+09:002011-09-12T09:19:34.443+09:00お優しい言葉をありがとうございます(感涙w)。大学院時代にWittgensteinを援用して以来、「...お優しい言葉をありがとうございます(感涙w)。大学院時代にWittgensteinを援用して以来、「わけがわからない」「論点を不必要に難しくばかりしている」などの温かい励ましwに支えられながらやってまいった私ではありまするが(←オイ、文体おかしくなってるぞ)、やっぱりご理解いただけると嬉しいです。the-mind/brain-embodied-in-the-body-embedded-in-the-worldの関係、およびSLAなどでのautomatizationはcognition focusであるということなど、まさにその通りです。コメントありがとうございました。Yosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-11271551622584323662011-09-12T09:01:34.761+09:002011-09-12T09:01:34.761+09:00このエッセイを拝読させていただいた後に、柳瀬先生のシンポジウムでのご発表を聞き、なるほどと納得しまし...このエッセイを拝読させていただいた後に、柳瀬先生のシンポジウムでのご発表を聞き、なるほどと納得しました。「身体化」という概念(日本語の「身につける」に似ていると思います」)は、ことばの学びを考える上で大切だと思います。デカルト以来、西洋科学は「知」と「身体」とを切り離して扱ってきましたが、ことばの学習はmind-body-world circuitの中で行われるものと私は考えています。SLAの用語automatizationはcognition focusですが、「身体化」はもっと広い視野でことばの発達をとらえていると理解しました(間違っているかもしれませんが、、、)。Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985217764723220205.post-28728045338952072932011-09-07T22:17:36.346+09:002011-09-07T22:17:36.346+09:00Anonymousさん、
ありがとうございます。言語学習・言語使用と意識の問題というのは避けて通れな...Anonymousさん、<br />ありがとうございます。言語学習・言語使用と意識の問題というのは避けて通れない論点だと思います。<br /><br />よかったら次のエッセイも読んでやってください。<br />http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.com/2011/09/feeling-of-language-as-sign-of.htmlYosuke YANASEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148861299273079929noreply@blogger.com