Amanda Preston
I am the Professional Education Solutions manager for the OraMetrix Digital Orthodontic Institute, headquartered in north Dallas. My team designs and delivers global learning solutions in digital orthodontics—technical training and clinician support in revolutionary suresmile | elemetrix technology. Alongside our team of international doctor faculty, my team develops experts into masters of bioengineered smile design using the most comprehensive digital treatment platform in the world.
Before transitioning into corporate talent development, I was a Professor of English and faculty coordinator at Eastfield College, and English Lecturer at the University of North Texas at Dallas, and a creative writer for the O'Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern.
Supervisors: Frederick Turner and Richard Golden
Before transitioning into corporate talent development, I was a Professor of English and faculty coordinator at Eastfield College, and English Lecturer at the University of North Texas at Dallas, and a creative writer for the O'Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern.
Supervisors: Frederick Turner and Richard Golden
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What is becoming clearer is that language is palimpsestic. It is like a marked transparency over visuospatial maps, which are wired to sensorimotor maps. The left lateralized interpreter uses language to communicably narrativize an apparent unity, but people are not the only fictionalizing animals.
This examination looks to cognitive and psychological studies to suggest that a prelinguistic instinct to make sense of unrelated information is a biological consequence of intersections between pattern matching, symbolic thinking, aesthetics, and emotive tagging, which is accessible by language, but not a product thereof. Language, rather, is just an outer surface.
Rather than thinking man, playing man, or tool-making man, we would be better described as storytelling animals (narrativism). Like other social mammals, we run simulation heuristics to predict causal chains, object/event frequency, value association, and problem solving. The post hoc product is episodic fiction. Language merely serves to magnify what Friederich Nietzsche rightfully identified as an art of dissimulation—lying. In short, the moral of the story is that we are making it all up as we go along.
What is becoming clearer is that language is palimpsestic. It is like a marked transparency over visuospatial maps, which are wired to sensorimotor maps. The left lateralized interpreter uses language to communicably narrativize an apparent unity, but people are not the only fictionalizing animals.
This examination looks to cognitive and psychological studies to suggest that a prelinguistic instinct to make sense of unrelated information is a biological consequence of intersections between pattern matching, symbolic thinking, aesthetics, and emotive tagging, which is accessible by language, but not a product thereof. Language, rather, is just an outer surface.
Rather than thinking man, playing man, or tool-making man, we would be better described as storytelling animals (narrativism). Like other social mammals, we run simulation heuristics to predict causal chains, object/event frequency, value association, and problem solving. The post hoc product is episodic fiction. Language merely serves to magnify what Friederich Nietzsche rightfully identified as an art of dissimulation—lying. In short, the moral of the story is that we are making it all up as we go along.