When Harry Potter ‘dies’, he has a conversation with Dumbledore, at the end of which he asks: “Professor, is this all real, or is it just happening inside my head?” Dumbledore responds “Of course it’s happening inside your head Harry. Why should that mean that it’s not real?”
This seminar is intended to acquaint you with a very real system that only exists inside our heads: language. We will explore what this astonishing mental system looks like. From vision science, and visual illusions, we know that “what you see is what you get” is often wrong: the things that fall on your retina do not determine the visual percept that you experience. You will find that there are many parallels to this in language.
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| TuTh 3:30pm – 4:45pm |