Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Psycholinguistique / Psychomécanique Face à la Spiritualité Humaine

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/psycholinguistique-psychom%C3%A9canique-face-%C3%A0-la-spiritualit%C3%A9-humaine-97fad7f5505a

Dans la perspective de ce colloque, il est temps et grand temps que je mette en chantier un travail fondamental sur la langue Pāli qui est un cas particulier de langue Indo-Aryenne? mais aussi un cas particulier d’une langue dont le discours principal est la spiritualité bouddhiste. La langue exprime les profondeurs les plus grandes de l’esprit et de l’âme humaines. Est-ce que l’étude d’une langue et d’un discours, de toutes les langues et de tous les discours peut permettre de saisir et d’approcfher la spiritualité humaine qui a produit le langage, qui a produit toutes les langues du monde? Si nous voulons comprendre ce qui se passe dans le cadre de la globalisation de notre monde comment peut-on trouver dans les langues humaines l’énergie multiple, diverse et même disparate qui permette cette même globalisation. Le monde de demain sera spirituel ou ne sera pas du tout, et la spiritualité ne peut s’exprimer que par le langage, les langues de tous les hommes. Voilà ma perspective mentale. Passons maintenant au projet de recherche des mois qui viennent.

2021, Medium.com

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 The Roots of Radicalism in England

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-roots-of-radicalism-in-england-a906019bd448

The English Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell is like a non-existent period in English history. Cromwell has been mostly banned from public awareness. And we know the vengeance James II had when he came back to the throne in 1760. That was no glorious revolution. The real Glorious Revolution got rid of the Stuarts in the 1780s. Good riddance. The worst decision of Elizabeth Ist to give the throne to these Stuarts whose mother she had gotten rid of by imprisonment and death. They were the four of them bad kings and Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth actually rooted democratic radicalism into England. But English history is not ready to admit it.

2021, Medium.com

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Conference in Romania, June17–18, 2021

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/conference-in-romania-june17-18-2021-999df2f8fa96

It is next week and virtual, so it is not too late to go there: just a few clicks away. The subject is fundamental, the limits of science and human knowledge. It is impossible to say with any precision when Homo Sapiens started to think as a human, and the only answer is: when he/she/they developed human language when his various mutations to become a fast long distance bipedal runner endowed him with the possibility to develop the first articulation of our languages, the rotation of vowels and consonants. And in the same way, we cannot say when human knowledge will end, except when Homo Sapiens disappears as a human species. And I do not believe humans will develop as some kind of androids with artificial intelligence and millions of nanobots in their veins.

2021, Medium.com

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Jaron Lanier, A Prophet of Virtual Reality

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/jaron-lanier-a-prophet-of-virtual-reality-eedc489dbbf3

Saint Jaron Lanier, the Prophet, and Apostle of Tomorrow's future, is well and alive somewhere in Silicon Valley, in one Silicon Valley somewhere in the world, or maybe in Virtual Reality Extraterritoriality.

The Prophet he is, because for now some forty years, at least, he has been battling around and about to create a virtual reality that can stand on its own two feet on a virtual earth in a virtual cosmos that are as real as a thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains.

The Apostle he is, because he is always gathering and summoning around him the salt of the earth or the crème de la crème of what this earth counts as avant-garde explorers to go into the wildlife beyond this Virtual Reality frontier.

Welcome to the adventure! ! ! !

2021, Medium.com

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Online 12th ISAPL International Congress

NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH:

LANGUAGE, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGIES

June 3-5, 2021

The Conference ended just a few hours ago,

On Saturday, June 5th, 2021, at 18:30

Virtual Celebration and Beer for All

It is now high time to look at the future because the conference was a success despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has been bombarding us with confinements and travel bans. We just ran Virtual, and we made it an event.

 A new team is taking over and can start working hard for the next congress, probably in 2024, in a European locale to be defined soon. The starting point of this 24^th congress is solid and firm. No quicksand under our feet and we hope the troubles of the last two years can be finally behind us and we will try not to look back, with or without anger.

 Our fields of research are numerous:

1- Teaching languages and all that can be taught in languages: reading, writing, performing, reciting, dramatizing, etc.

2- Translating and in this field, trying to invent a new method to translate and trying to devise a new procedure of machine-translating because what exists on the market does not satisfy our needs, though, for the most creative and inventive forms of linguistic expression, a translation-machine might never be good enough.

3- The didactics of foreign languages, either within a multilingual or a polylingual, or a simple bilingual frame. Along with the phylogeny of the acquisition of one first language or two first languages by a child starting even before his/her/their birth.

4- The discovery, collecting, and defending of all languages of all peoples in the world. We will concentrate on endangered languages first, international and global communication languages second, and then all other languages that are a heritage of humanity that has to be saved from minorization and eventually perdition.

5- The cultures contained, developed, and transmitted by these languages with the strong motivation to give all cultures the fullest possibilities to find a way to live for the speakers of these languages, and for the whole world, because all cultures are a heritage for the whole humanity, equally and unrestrainedly.

An Overview of the phenomenal task that is ours.

 Our main scientific commitment will be what it has been for now several decades, i.e., APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.

 Psycholinguistics because in the 300,000-year-long phylogeny of Homo Sapiens, of humanity, two virtual dimensions developed in the real brain, first the mind, what the Buddhists call the sixth sense, and articulated language. Homo Sapiens became what we are by becoming a fast long-distance bipedal runner, which implied the mutation of our feet and legs, plus a whole set of mutations selected for that very object: running on our two feet long distance and fast, Marathon-like, to hunt or escape from predators. These mutations had one collateral side-effect: the development of articulated language that started thus something like 300,000 years ago, and this phylogeny developed, word after word, sentence after sentence, utterance after utterance, our modern languages that emerged in Black Africa and migrated out of Black Africa to Northern Africa first, the whole of Asia second, and Europe and Central-&-Northern Asia third, with the last wave of these migrations staying on the Iranian plateau. These migrations out of Black Africa were finished around 45,000 BCE.

 After the peak of the Ice Age, further migrations from Siberia and South East Asia will reach North and South America before the Peak of the Ice Age (19,000 BCE), and the last wave of the third migration out of Black Africa that stayed on the Iranian Plateau only migrated after this Ice Age Peak, West to Mesopotamia and then Europe, and East to the Indian sub-continent.

 We are trying to get a full picture of the phylogeny and history of Homo Sapiens to understand the linguistic mosaic of humanity, and this mosaic has to be preserved, protected, and validated because the mind and language developed, have developed, and are still developing along parallel lines, simultaneously and reciprocally. One language that dies here or there, and the human mind is impoverished and loses a few intellectual cells.

An Overview of the phenomenal task that is ours.

 But we strongly believe in the “applied” dimension of our science, and all sciences as for that. It means intellectuals, linguists, scientists, academics have to come out of their protected abstract and comfortable ivory towers and descend into the fields of real life, of practice, and to do this all tools, including the most advanced and those that do not exist yet will have to be used day after day, relentlessly, to change the course of our own species and of the earth. All those who will not do it will be left behind. We only know about computers, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and a few other tools of the type, but Virtual Reality is coming, and it will be in all our schools sooner than we may think. Jaron Lanier used it for Boeing to train pilots last century. After the present crisis that is running through humanity, revealing the inequality, injustice, and unfairness of human policies in the world, we will never go back to pre-pandemic normal, we will have to invent a new normal, just, fair, and sustainable.

 For education, which concerns us, applied psycholinguists, directly, the pandemic crisis has bluntly revealed the countries that have been able to devise a “new normal” by discovering that distance learning enables us to lower the number of students in the classes and the classrooms by alternating in complementary fashion distance learning and face-to-face learning, provided the educational system be able to promote self-learning for all equally as a right and a duty, and guidance from the teachers who will have to be trained, self-trained, innovative, and creative. We are entering the age of guided self-learning and soon enough beyond Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning we will navigate in the cosmos with Virtual Reality, not to entertain in a way or another (which will be possible of course) but to mine this cosmos for knowledge and bring it back to the class and the classroom for discussion, confrontation, and synthesis into working hypotheses that will be like stages on our road to more knowledge and a better life in the real world, with eventually a better environment on our planet, and the mission not to pollute the universe or the cosmos with our trash.

 I might not be one pioneer on this Virtual Reality frontier, but I can assure you I am a practitioner on the Guided Self-Learning front with the students I am coaching into becoming the English-speaking elite of the avant-garde start-ups of medical progress, among others.

 Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Vice-President of ISAPL

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