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We can say that knowledge begets knowledge and understanding builds on previous understanding over time; but what is really going on?

To what extent is human knowing shaped by the contingent circumstances of a given formative social and linguistic context?

Andrew Brown (2006) Blue War. Oil on canvas.

Embodied LEARNERS

Facets of KNOWING

How are our perceptions, what we can imagine, and what we eventually might come to understand, limited by our embodied biology? Are the rudiments of language and logic inextricable from the fine microstructure of the brain? How do we make sense of our biologically driven emotions and predispositions?

How much of what we are and what we know is innate, or genetically determined, and how much will always remain to be learned?