George Lakoff - All Reality Consists of What Things?

For subscriber-only exclusives, register for a free membership today: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns We look around and see innumerable things and to each we give a separate name. But most things are composites, made up of smaller, more fundamental things. So digging down to bedrock reality, what are the fewest numbers of independent things? Particles, forces, fields in the physical world? Anything mental? Anything spiritual? Watch more interviews on the future of the universe: https://bit.ly/40p5xEh Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje George P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.