Statistical physics and modern human warfare

"Der Beitrag reevaluiert die «dogmatische Funktion», eine soziale Funktion, die mit biologischer und kultureller Reproduktion und folglich der Reproduktion des industriellen Systems zusammenhängt. Indem sie sich auf der Grenze zwischen Anthropologie und Rechtsgeschichte des Westens situiert, nimmt die Studie die psychoanalytische Frage nach der Rolle des Rechts im Verhalten des modernen Menschen erneut in den Blick. </br></br>This article reappraises the dogmatic function, a social function related to biological and cultural reproduction and consequently to the reproduction of the industrial system itself. On the borderline of anthropology and of the history of law – applied to the West – this study takes a new look at the question raised by psychoanalysis concerning the role of law in modern human behaviour. "

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Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics

10.1007/978-3-642-96483-1 ◽

1979 ◽

Cited By ~ 466

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Monte Carlo Methods ◽

Statistical Physics

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Clash of signs: Putting bilingualism back into language evolution

10.31234/osf.io/5uebp ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Samuel

Keyword(s):

Language Evolution ◽

Modern Human ◽

Alarm Calls ◽

Bilingual Children ◽

Human Language ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Typically Developing Children ◽

Modern Humans ◽

The Real ◽

Multiple Languages

Research and thinking into the cognitive aspects of language evolution has usually attempted to account for how the capacity for learning even one modern human language developed. Bilingualism has perhaps been thought of as something to think about only once the ‘real’ puzzle of monolingualism is solved, but this would assume in turn (and without evidence) that bilingualism evolved after monolingualism. All typically-developing children (and adults) are capable of learning multiple languages, and the majority of modern humans are at least bilingual. In this paper I ask whether by skipping bilingualism out of language evolution we have missed a trick. I propose that exposure to synonymous signs, such as food and alarm calls, are a necessary precondition for the abstracting away of sound from referent. In support of this possibility is evidence that modern day bilingual children are better at breaking this ‘word magic’ spell. More generally, language evolution should be viewed through the lens of bilingualism, as this is the end state we are attempting to explain.

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