Labels:bulletin board | dialog box | web site | window OCR: Our abilities to plan gradually develop from childhood narratives and are major foundation for ethical choices, as we imagine a course of action imagine its effects on others and decide whether or not to do it In this way, syntax raises intelligence toa new level By borrowing the mental structures for syntax to judge other combinations of possible actions we can extend our planning abilities and our intelligence To some extent we do this by talking silently to ourselves making narratives out of what might happen next and then applying syntax- like rules of combination to rate scenario as dangerous nonsense mere nonsense possible likely or logical. But our thinking is not limited to language like constructs. Indeed we may shout "Eureka!" when feeling a set of mental relationships click into ...
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