How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky | TED

Lera Boroditsky discusses how language shapes thought, highlighting the diversity of cognitive universes created by the world's 7,000 languages. She uses examples from different cultures, such as the Kuuk Thaayorre people who use cardinal directions instead of left and right, and the varying ways languages categorize colors and assign grammatical gender. Boroditsky explains that these linguistic differences lead to different ways of perceiving space, time, quantities, and even influencing memory, blame, and punishment. She emphasizes the importance of linguistic diversity and warns about the loss of languages, advocating for broader, less biased research in cognitive science to better understand the human mind.