"What Thoughts Are Made Of" - is an excerpt from <strong>Semin, Gun R.; Smith, Eliot R.. Embodied Grounding : Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches. Cambridge, , GBR: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p 108.</strong>
"What are thoughts made of? Do we think in pictures? In words? In symbols? What is the currency of human cognition and how do the representations that make up thinking - come to be in our minds? In this chapter we explore the rich sources of input that humans receive from perception and language and how combining the information from these two input streams can be used to created the amazing complexity and sophistication of the human knowledge system..."
"...The findings reviewed in this chapter begin to tell a story about the acquisition of knowledge that is simultaneously grounded in perceptual experience and enmeshed within a linguistic system..."
"Appreciating the richness of this information humans receive as input both from these two sources should help us turn what had seemed to be unsolveable mysteries about the origins of knowledge into tractable puzzles."