Reviewed by Manju Mohanty, PhD, Rahul Tyagi, MSc
This book is about examination of functional relation between language structure, internal brain regulatory processes and external processes in nature. Book describes the relation of learning, language and cognitive fitness as adaptive biological interrelations of a process called life. Author describes human being’s unique advantage of understanding thought process, language and the reality under the shadow of scientific processes. Evolution of language contributes to the search of novelty of thoughts, behaviour, knowledge, problems, solutions, creativity, learning, innovation, trust and belief in the human kind to serve the horizon. Author linked the evolution of human brain with evolution of primitive language which represented primitive information processing and reasoning. Complexity of language is attributed for understanding complexity of nature to reveal its most dynamic aspects enabling the bigger view of perspective. Linkage of Hippocampus and amygdala to segregate and integrate past with future for encoding and archiving the essence of memory, has been described to be correlated and influenced by language.
Book reveals the role of language in understanding the illusion of knowledge, for formulating flexible and adaptive policies, in effective problem solving, decision making and promoting harmonious relationships.
While reviewing the book we were wondering to understand this philosophy in the Indian context where diversity of languages may contribute to diversity of thoughts. Whether the transformation of Hindi speaking population to English speaking population is resulting in transformation of thoughts as well as cognitive fitness, may be a topic of debate. Moreover, whether ancient Indian language Sanskrit influenced the creation of most intellectual texts of our era to enlighten the world with holly thoughts for human survival and mental Renaissance. Author has ignited a thought provoking question to the scientific community to understand and think that in which format we should evolve ourself for seeking enduring evolution of thoughts.