Beyond Words

Authors

Mansoor Choudhry, Nova Southeastern University

Date

3-16-2019

Author Bio(s)

Mansoor Choudhry is a third year medical student at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Boston College alumnus where he studied psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. When he is not busy with his studies, Mansoor enjoys kayaking, hiking, classical philosophy, contemporary philosophy, and learning new languages. Through his exploration of different languages, Mansoor found there were subtle differences in the ways different languages encode experienced reality. This linguistic relativity led him to pose the question: How much of the “truth” is discovered and how much is created?

Talk Description

Language may be the first tool invented by human beings, as a response to the problem of communication. The ability to assign meaning to vibrational disturbances culminated in the ability to seed other minds and offered an infrastructure within which to interpret reality. Some argue lang

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Recommended Citation

Choudhry, Mansoor, "Beyond Words" (2019). TEDxNSU. 50.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tedxnsu/50

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