Online Lecture by Japanese Researcher Kumon Tokumaru
The second conference of students and teachers of PetrSU was held with Kumon Tokumaru, a prominent Japanese researcher, expert in digital linguistics, who represented a report on anthropology entitled "What is human being?".
During the open mini-lecture Kumon Tokumaru told about his research project aiming at explanation of three-phase linguistic intelligence evolution using the hypothesis of eusocial nature of phonemes and language as a primary tool for communication in society. Lecture provided by the researcher from Japan was held in positive creative manner and followed lively discussion.
Pavel Stafeev, 2nd year student, Institute of Economics and Law, PetrSU:
Such meetings provide a great opportunity to get acquainted with interesting people, as well as practice English language skills.
Mohammad Ramadan, foreign student from Jordan, Institute of Medicine, PetrSU:
Arigato-Kosaimas - that’s the word in Japanese meaning "thank you". I would like to say "arigato" to our amazing lecture Mr. Tokumaru for his insightful lecture on evolution of the language and nature of human communication.
Irina Ivanova, employee at the Bryansk State Technical University:
I listened to the lecture with keen interest and learned a lot about nature, evolutionary development of human intelligence. It means a lot that students, Master students, post-graduate students, teachers have the opportunity to become closer to contemporary scientific theories, broaden their research scope of vision.
A scientific meeting was organized jointly by the discussion club "Debaters Today, Leaders Tomorrow" (Lilia Yusupova and Tatiana Tatarina, Department of Foreign Languages for Humanities) and the Student Scientific Society of PetrSU (Sabina Nedbailik, Associate Professor of the Department of German and French Languages, Candidate of Philology, and Anton Malyshko, Chairman of the Student Scientific Society).
For reference:
Kumon Tokumaru was born in 1959 in Ōita, Japan. He studied Political sciences at the University of Tokyo and graduated in 1983. He worked in industry as an engineer of Earth observation satellite system and satellite communication. He participated in UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, WSSD in 2002 held in Johannesburg, South Aftica. In 2007, he visited the oldest extant human site in South Africa and realized that human language was nothing other than the product of digital evolution. Since then he has been carrying out interdisciplinary research, studying digital linguistics, functions of human brain and linguistic intelligence evolution.
