Professor Michael Corballis proved that human language developed first from hand gestures.....
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@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang Today hand gestures are only meaningful if you are deaf.
From Wiki about Corballis: "Of great international importance was his hypothesis that human language evolved from gestures, expressed in the book "From hand to mouth".[citation needed] His work is widely quoted.[3] In July 2021 the New Zealand Association of Scientists and the Royal Society Te Apārangi criticised Corballis, and other six University of Auckland professors, for writing the letter 'In Defense of Science' to the Listener Magazine, in which they said that Māori knowledge should not be considered in the same category as science.[4] The letter generated substantial debate about free speech and the value of Māori knowledge in the education curriculum, with those defending and criticising Corballis' position."
Corballis is right, Maori knowledge is only real knowledge if it can be tested and proved to work. If Maori knowledge doesn't work then Maori knowledge is just a load of made up tribal campfire stories.
@Dream Diction it depends how "knowledge" is defined. I recommend reading Olivier Costa de Beauregard's book, "Time: a physical magnitude" - Costa de Beauregard was a member of the Institute of Advanced STudy at Princeton. He was a protege of Louis de Broglie. I corresponded with Corballis about 15 years ago - I don't agree with everything he argues for. I would also consider Erich Jarvis on the speech learning of song birds.
I've corresponded with Chomsky a few times also - and so Corballis follows Chomsky's view that human speech as thinking is based on a recursive syntax that other animals lack - thus making humans special. This definition of recursive syntax though assumes a symmetric definition of math whereas the right hand dominance model of Corballis with left brain dominance then moves speech to take over the right hand using tools instead of talking with gestures. The left brain is dominant in vocal signals in animals - going back to frogs in evolution - as the left brain is dominant in timing. But the right brain is frequency dominant and animals rely on frequency just as much as timing.
So Chomsky considers that music could be a viable model for the origin of human language and music is right brain dominant as frequency use. So similarly as Erich Jarvis demonstrates - birds teach vocal communication via music as singing but it is closely connected to the "dancing" or hopping of the birds as motion. This is corroborated by the cerebellum being used in music processing for both motion synchronization and emotional processing as meaning.
So even though vocal learning is very rare in animals - as Erich Jarvis emphasizes "auditory learning" is very ancient in animals.
And for this would should refer to Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff - as Penrose relies on the de Broglie-Einstein relation. You can study their model based on ultrasound - for more details - suffice it to say this is what I had recommended to Corballis in contrast to a symmetric recursive syntax model. Noncommutative phase (right hand, left brain and right brain left hand) is scale invariant down to the nonlocal level as proto-consciousness of the Universe.
@DadisDad yes peer review is interpersonal relations. No it does not need to be an institution nor a journal. For example Prince Louis de Broglie was not going to have his Ph.D. thesis passed until Einstein got a copy of it and stood up for de Broglie. Then de Broglie got the Nobel Prize. What did Einstein state? well people write,
"That bizarre idea met resistance."
Yes it still does - most physicists still do not accept de Broglie's Law of Phase Harmony."
translated from French into English in this book, established the wave-particle duality theory of matter, expounding his firm conviction, known as the de Bloglie hypothesis, that any moving particle had an associated wave. The thesis was intended for his doctoral degree from the examining board of the Sorbonne consisting of Jean Perrin, Paul Langevin, Elie Cartan and Charles Maugin. The examining board, perplexed by apparently radical ideas of de Broglie, asked Albert Einstein (1879-1955) whether the thesis deserved a doctoral degree. Einstein responded quickly by saying that the thesis deserved a Nobel Prize rather than a doctoral degree. Einstein recommended the thesis to Schroedinger, which resulted in celebrated Schr¨odinger equation."
And so what did Einstein state about de Broglie's Ph.D. thesis?
"It may look crazy but it is really sound."
Yes that is what we can say about the book "Christ in Egypt" also.
Have you read the Ph.D. thesis, "Eusebius and Empire"? I just got it from the Interlibrary Loan - it completely corroborates the claims of D.M. Murdock. Eusebius tried to rewrite Philo to claim Philo was considering the Therapeutae to be the first Christians in Alexandria Egypt. Then Eusebius justified this by stating that the apostle Mark had his gospel spread in Alexandria Egypt. Only Eusebius is the only one making that claim at that time and there was only evidence to the contrary. Ah but that's how legends are made.
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