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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:Dreaming and language evolution\, Chaos & Complex Systems Semi
 nar\, Art Schmaltz\, Prairie State College
DESCRIPTION:Language evolution has been deemed the hardest problem in 
 science. Part of the problem resides in discovering the prior evolved 
 biological system upon which human language has scaffolded itself. Eff
 orts to locate which simpler features evolved into language have met w
 ith problems. The resolution to the dilemma of language evolution may 
 involve a Copernican leap. Instead of a theoretical trajectory going f
 rom a simple evolved system to a complex system\, the opposite strateg
 y might resolve the problem. Neuroscience has discovered the enormous 
 amount of brain power required for language functioning. The only brai
 n function more complex\, involving more information processing in the
  human brain\, occurs during REM dreaming. Dreaming is a biologically 
 hardwired brain function that is in some ways more complex than waking
  linguistic functioning. Dreaming is also phylogenetically older than 
 human language. Dreaming as the birthplace of language is throughly co
 nsistent with Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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