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Nobody asked, but: tonight Italy plays Germany in #WinterOlympics men's #curling and, as a reminder of the complexity of #nationalIdentity, I, an Italy-born German citizen, contrary to what I mostly do in sports, will side with Italy!

#socialConstruct #imaginedCommunities #Heimat

Talking Heads is a Waterstones science book of the year!
‘Offering radical new perspectives on the ways we communicate, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara's luminous volume explores what happens in our brain when we talk and the wide-reaching effects of this deeply human activity on individuals, groups and societies.’
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-popular-science#mathematics
#memory #politics #culture #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds is 0.99 on Amazon today. Bargain!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09X99TWLS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #killerapp #cognition

https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-neuroscience-of-nationalism-c41

Nationalisms of every type and stripe - from ethnonationalism to ‘my country firsters’ to progressive nationalism to regressive nationalism to civic nationalism to so many others (Wiki does an admirable job of cataloguing them) - are one of the defining features of our political and social lives, right across the whole world...

#Collectivememory #imaginedcommunities #mentaltimetravel #agency #identity #substack

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

For less than the price of a pizza, you can pre-order 'Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds' for your Kindle, and have it autodelivered on 3rd Aug for some nice summer reading! https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487 #TalkingHeads #conversation #sharedrealities #imaginedcommunities #memory #neuronstonations