This webpage has a few quotes relevant to this podcast: <here>

For more information about Professor Peter Carruthers, see <here>

The publisher’s site for the book is: <here>

“Language syntax may have evolved initially from the representations that underlie tool construction and complex kinds of action, issuing in forms of gestural communication in the first instance.”

“Our mentalizing system comes close to entailing that mental states don’t occupy spatial positions.” “Even among people who explicitly reject them, dualist beliefs are apt to emerge indirectly in their intuitive judgments, or to manifest themselves when people are placed under cognitive load.”

“Our minds are in some regards as different from other minds as living things are from nonliving things, and finding even one defensible path from our common ancestor with the chimpanzees is a challenging task. … [W]e are the only species so far that has developed explosively cumulative culture …and any speculative story that explains why (both how come and what for) we have culture must also explain why we alone have culture.” Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds.