I absolutely adore her presentations, speeches, ideas, research and sense of humour 😊

Lera is a wondrous, inspiring, insightful and captivating presenter! I am perpetually in debt with KZfaq’s algorithms for bringing me here!

What an eye opener to listen to her content... her voice, composure, presentation style, sense of humor - wow, wow... awesome!

I just finished her speech "How Language shapes the way we think" it's was really helpful, and when I saw this video, I thought why she looks like the speaker of the speech I just saw, it looks similar. I just realized is she. and I saw many of her speech, on my KZfaq recommendation. I'm an English learner.

Your TED talk, this talk, and your Santa Fe talk on how language shapes the way we think have tied in so well in my readings and studies in consciousness. As consciousness progresses in a child language must be the tool that lets it mature! All human societies appear to have language, if they don’t they create one. So it must be the key player in consciousness. The debate continues as to where consciousness resides, the brain, or some frequency of quark mechanics. I found your talks fascinating and as mind opening as a magic mushroom (just kidding, they aren’t legal in California yet.) I loved all three of your talks. Thank you!

Lera Boroditsky's presentation can be another way to understand critical discourse analysis or vice versa.

I love Lera's voice💖

Brilliant ideas! I watched and listened to all her presentations on KZfaq. Can I have some more? If all my teachers are as articulate as she is, I will always be enrolled in courses :-)

hedgehogs making thin pastry is a prickly subject. i hope there are more talks about language relating to science, as she says most of the research is data collected from american students so aboriginals doing tests might have alarmingly different results. i'm fascinated by language in science, how much of science is right or wrong becuase of the direction language takes us in, like being able to describe the impossible "when an irresistible force meets an immovable object", obviously impossible, but we can say it.

Excellent and fascinating talk. One aspect of the talk however brings up a dilemma. Time travel is presented as though it is a concept that emerged from how we think of time and space (english speakers anyway I'm presuming). However, the reality is that time travel was invented by a single person, just as all inventions are created - they all come from a single person and never from groups. Inventors change reality by creating new concepts and things. Once these concepts and things are assimilated they then become conventional or everyday symbols, at that point they are part of a new reality. They will eventually be replaced though by other concepts and things that are invented by someone in the future. That is the nature of reality. It does not change from group think, it changes because of individuals who have imagination, creativity and the ability to solve problems in new ways.

Great lecture... BTW Did anyone notice the @20:00 time's up cough... And how her facial expressions change just a tiny bit? Same thing happens a bit more clearly at @18:34 when someone coughs in the back and then someone sitting upfront gives her a signal, at which point she brings on her last slide.

I love her presentations.

She can keep all her students awake in class

Brilliant lady, advancing the knowledge of how we think and rising a lot of questions on the way there. I have few comments, but my starting thought is to not dismiss the concept of reincarnation in itself, but accept it as possible as part of some sort of generic memory that would transfer learnings from one generation to the next... Why not ? What are instincts otherwise but imprinted genetic responses to certain environment stimuli ?

Time and spatial orientation are very interesting.

Thanks! More fuel for my thoughts. ♡ive

In regard to the early question about how abstract thought could develop organically, it is only necessary to consider studies of how creativity works. Creativity is normally defined as doing/saying/thinking something that has never been done/said/thought before. This is a workable description but it is also somewhat misleading. The overwhelming majority of creative activity (not all, but the exceptions are inconsequential) can be broken down to taking two or more different but similar things and mentally combining them in some way. For example, when you look at a tree you know that it is a 3-dimensional object and your see it as such. If you walk around it you can see how the branches extend in every direction. Even when you stand back from it, your brain allows you to see it that way even though in reality the light that you are sending is all coming from one direction and all you are really seeing is a connection of lines and colors in a fixed pattern. Now, if you can take that pattern of lines that you see and mentally combine it with a similar pattern of lines that you mark onto a piece of paper then you have just invented the concept of artistic representation of objects (aka drawing). This is a very abstract process. It becomes even more abstract if you try to draw something from memory. But at the same time the process of mentally combining disparate things has very concrete benefits. That is how you can decide that if eating one plant makes you sick, then another different but similar plant might also make you sick. And right there is the link that describes how abstract thought can evolve in a concrete environment.

She is so intelligent lady

fell in love :)

Wow

Dear Miss, Study ancient languages ,and have to tell you there is so much more you actually could be suprised about. At least it would be very interesting.Semantics can blow mind.

We use spatial terms to talk about all things; concrete and abstract. Time's no exception unless its expressed in mathematical terms.

Hello Lera. Very interesting presentation. I thought about this 'left and right' theory very often myself. I'm just an ordinary man nothing to do with your profession. We know the origin of both types of writings. How does this influence our mind and thinking, we don't know. We have some great personalities president Bill Clinton and Obama, writings with the left hand, others with the right hand. Is there some personality differences between them? We also know that Jewish people lighting two candles on Shabbat night. One for the present one for the past. There isn't lightening for the future because the future is uncertain. But if we can make an imaginary number (s) and enlightening the future I can win on lotto millions of dollars. Why didn't gave us the G'd spirit the third candle to lighten?

Everything I would like in a women intelligent, beautiful, stunning piercing eyes and my standards of virte in a strong women.I pray I could one day find someone of similar traits. -if I could flow thru time I would use it to find her. Yep lol retaining 2the video it was very interesting, was time worth:)

I'm in love...

If something that made us walk is Language and never activities..just Pleasure of knowing

She is smart

Sound guy needs to EQ microphone, lots of ringing. Horrible Audio.

She's absolutely beautiful...too distracting from her words....gotta put it in the background and just listen.

I often dream of aforementioned polka dancing pastry chef hedgehogs travelling through time.

Who couldn't stop following the shadow of the mic(mike)?

I’m not sure, that your researches about neglected people are correct. My mother in low really doesn’t fell the left side of her face, but she instead has much more problems with remembering her past, and no problems with future🤷‍♀️

Lera. time is an invention of the humans to organize their lives. As far as languages are concerned I am concerned about the hidden meaninings of certain languages. Under-Stand.we do not have to exagerate in using our imagionation. We should use our conscious mind , reason and logic . Your theory is wrong.

Let's revive Sumerian in Iraq and bring back Iraq as it was 2400 BC

In my hometown people are very concrete, not too much apstraction

Why do we humans still remain inane? Our creeds and evils have made us insane.

It is so hard to consider her that she is not a native english speaker

The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase

Uh, is she Sam Harris' sister? Talks just like him including minimal facial expression

What concept is this?????time moves towards you or you move towards time???????You live at the present time and you move ahead with plans for the future. tgis is how it must be. You cannot just sit on a chair and wait for your imaginary servants to bring you whatever you wish. You must work to earn a living, you must study, you must work for your children and do it enthousiasticly. Your theories sound more like Einstein's theories that nobody could understand untill recently when the true meaning of his theories has been deschifered. It was also about this imaginary travel in time and the travel of light from one person to another. So how can we resolve the causes of the psychological problems many people in the west have ???????????I know how. You as a cognitive scientist do you know the causes and the solutions?????????????????????