Audiovisual Clips
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Video Clip, 4/17/2013: The Origin of Ideas
Why are we so innovative? Where do new ideas come from? Why are human beings so exceptionally good at innovation, leaving other species mentally in the dust? How can we hold onto new ideas once they are formed? This book explores the claim that the human spark, the source of innovation and the origin of ideas, was an advance that occurred in a particular kind of mental operation, which Turner calls blending. View the book talk.
Video Clip, 3/2/2012: All the news that's fit to watch:
A new computational linguistics, or how to study a billion words and two hundred thousand hours of TV
Human communication is multimodal, involving language, co-speech gesture, interpersonal interaction, audiovisual components, affordances of the environment, media, and technology. Traditional text corpora have only just begun to include examples of multimodal communication. In this talk, we will look at theoretical and empirical aspects of computer-assisted research on a massive multimodal corpus of human language and communication. View the talk.
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Video Clip, 5/3/2012: In a Nutshell: How Can We Have Vast Ideas in Local Minds?
Human thought stretches across vast ranges of time, space, causation, and agency, and yet the machinery we have for producing these thoughts is highly local. How can we manage with local minds to construct, manipulate, and manage such vast and diffuse ranges of ideas? View the talk.
Video Clip, November, 2006: Autonomy, Creativity, Singularity. A talk at the National Humanities Center.
Mark Turner, ASC from National Humanities Center on Vimeo.