Thank you for these references. The link to language is very interesting. I have a continuing interest in the linkage between imagination, images, language and image systems. That too goes a long way back in time as a design thread.
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On May 29, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Yoad David Luxembourg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Very nice Harold,
>
> If you feel alone in your position, I recommend reading Dong (2009 p. 176-7). Design is at least as old as language (if not being language by itself)
> "Language is believed to have evolved at about the same time tool making was unfolding (Davidson &Nobel 1993)...
> Arbib's mirror system hypotheses (2005) theories that the evolution of the language ready brain proceeded at pace with the development of motor skills."
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> All the best!
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> Yoad David Luxembourg
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