Part I: From Token to Aleph-Bet: The Data

  (presented in Belfast, May 2007)


Part II: The Co-evolutionary Emergence of Linguistic

Systems: Ratcheting from Icon to Symbol

(Deacon Hypothesis)


Part III: The Role of Material Tokens in Extended

Cognition: Ratcheting Material Culture

(Clark Hypothesis)


Part IV: From Token to Aleph-Bet (and beyond):

The Theory (Aarhus, June 2007)


Part V: "I was El Shaddai, but now I'm Yahweh":

Biblical Names as Tools for Extended Cognition

(Vienna, July 2007)

This project was made up of a number of conference papers over the course of the summer and fall of 2007 that explore the relation between religion, technology, and cognition.

The Origins of Rabbinic Iconoclasm: Toward the Integration of Written Technology