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How the body shapes the way we think

20-08-2012

Body language, nonverbal communication, science

How the body shapes the way we think

an interesting and convincing but also strange approach to the issue of the importance of movement for developement and learning.

All of Pfeiffer`s projects contribute, one way or other, to the central theme of understanding intelligence. The central concepts which form the basis of the approach include embodiment (the physical realization of agents), morphology, system-environment coupling, dynamics, and material properties. Pfeiffer`s main research fields are biorobotics, learning and development, evolution and morphogenesis, and collective intelligence.

Pfeiffer and his collegues are convinced that movement and the ability to move are basic elements of intelligence. So, one could think that body language and nonverbal behaviour also are aspects of intelligence.

If you are interested just have a look at his book.

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
A New View of Intelligence
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
Foreword by Rodney Brooks

http://www.neuroscience.ethz.ch/research/computation_modeling/pfeifer

Business Setting and nonverbal communication

By: Ulrich Sollmann

16-08-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Business Setting and nonverbal communication

Here is a brief overview on specific aspects of :

How Chinese Nonverbal Communication Can Affect An International Business Setting

http://internationalbusiness.wikia.com/wiki/How_Chinese_Nonverbal_Communication_Can_Affect_An_International_Business_Setting

Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent

By: Ulrich Sollmann

15-08-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent

The People

Deeply rooted in Chinese society is the need to belong and conform to a unit, whether the family, a political party or an organization. The family is the focus of life for most Chinese. Age and rank are highly respected. However, to the dismay of older people, today’s young people are rapidly modernizing, wearing blue jeans and sunglasses, drinking Coke and driving motorbikes.

Meeting and Greeting

Shake hands upon meeting. Chinese may nod ……………

Bound to the context or the individuum?

By: Ulrich Sollmann

10-08-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Bound to the context or the individuum?

In June I wrote about my impression that Chinese language is a body language. A conclusion out of this issue can be the following:

On the one hand Chinese people are bound to each other by society, family or group identity but they show up within this context as some kind of only related person on the interactional level. When the person shows up individually when the person interacts it relates to the context. We in the Western countries call this: bound to family and social life or structures. We also have the opinion that this is a sign of social / cultural bound identity.

In contrast to that we in the western countries……………..

good morning everybody ;-)

By: Ulrich Sollmann

10-08-2012

nonverbal communication

Good morning everybody 😉

Let’s think about relationship

By: Ulrich Sollmann

08-08-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Let’s think about relationship

Let’s think about being a little girl, a little child and being old and growing down to the earth. These two people, the smart little girl and the old (bowed?) woman represent relationship in so far as the child is aware of the people around her but does not have to be always engaged with these people. The child goes out to his own future and …………

Three faces – one face

By: Ulrich Sollmann

06-08-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

Three faces – one face

The older you get, the more you’re yourself

I’m convinced about this wisdom of life.

Of course, if you look at these three women on the photo you see different faces. There’s quite a lot of similar expression on the grandma’s face and the daughter’s face concerning the nose, forehead and the upper part of the face. There is less similarity to the granddaughter there. On the other hand there’s ………….

MAMA-situation

By: Ulrich Sollmann

05-08-2012

nonverbal communication, psychology, science

MAMA-situation

Well language is always also body language. I talked about this already. Remembering Wittgensteins sentence, the German philosopher, language is sounding movement or the sound of movement. And movement is feeling. You know that feeling in English also means emotion.

A lot is written in psychology and psychoanalysis about this. One main concept is the following. I put it into simple sentences, I hope you forgive me for that. 😉

When a child is born it feels ………………….

language is…… / Sprache ist…….

By: Ulrich Sollmann

03-08-2012

Body language, nonverbal communication, science

language is…..sounding movement…

or the sound of movement.

Sprache ist….Laut (laut) gewordene Bewegung.

Following the German philosopher Wttgemstein this means that language derives from movement. Movement is THE charactersiticum of life. If you are dead you cannot move. And when you can move this brings up feelings. Alweays. All this together he says is language.

So the word as part of the language is only ONE part of language. No more. There is also a life impulse, movement, feeling, expression, someone who is aware odf this andsoon.

Tomorrow I will talk about some psychoanalytical concept which leads to the same view. I will call it the Mama-situation or Mama-scene.

Zeit der Halluzinationen or time for halluzination

By: Ulrich Sollmann

01-08-2012

nonverbal communication, science

Zeit der Halluzinationen or time for halluzination

It is a pity that I don´t translate this little statement of my college Simone Pika into English. To be honest I am a bit too lazy today because of the weather. 😉 Sorry for that. T make it short, she says that we humans often live in the past or the future. Primates live in the here and now!!! And that is often much better and more successful.

Eine besondere Eigenschaft menschlicher Sprache und menschlicher Kognition ist, dass wir uns in unseren Gesprächen und Gedanken vorwiegend im Gestern und im Morgen bewegen. Kleiner Test: Sie sitzen……..

How the body shapes the way we think

Business Setting and nonverbal communication

Here is a brief overview on specific aspects of :

How Chinese Nonverbal Communication Can Affect An International Business Setting

Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent

good morning everybody ;-)

Let’s think about relationship

Three faces – one face

MAMA-situation

language is…… / Sprache ist…….

Zeit der Halluzinationen or time for halluzination

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