000070788 001__ 70788 000070788 005__ 20190221115637.0 000070788 0248_ $$2sideral$$a105482 000070788 037__ $$aART-2016-105482 000070788 041__ $$aeng 000070788 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-6891-6275$$aMendívil Giró, José Luis$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000070788 245__ $$aTwo languages, two minds? Horrifying Schrödinger 000070788 260__ $$c2016 000070788 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000070788 5203_ $$aOne of the most important theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, Erwin Schrödinger, considered “obvious” that there is only one human consciousness, and that the feeling of having an individual mind is just that, a feeling (Schrödinger 1944). With all due respect for the father of the wave equation of quantum mechanics (for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933), I will continue to assume we all have our own minds and our own self- consciousness, but just only one. It is not difficult to imagine the Viennese genius turning in his grave if he could read the paper “Two languages two minds” (Athanasopoulos et al. 2015), because if the authors were right, an extra proliferation of minds in people would be involved. Athanasopoulos et al. echo the famous statement by Charlemagne that speaking another language is like possessing another soul, and they update it implying that speaking two languages is like having two minds. The phrase is good as a headline (although not as suggestive as that of Charlemagne), but it implies a rather drastic devaluation of what we usually mean by mind and (I suspect) a somewhat simplistic view of the relationship between language and cognition... 000070788 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000070788 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/other$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000070788 7102_ $$13010$$2575$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDepartamento de Lingüística General e Hispánica$$cLingüística General 000070788 773__ $$g3 (2016), 9-11$$pTheLinguist NTNU$$tThe Linguist at NTNU 000070788 8564_ $$s62563$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/70788/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000070788 8564_ $$s139876$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/70788/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000070788 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:70788$$particulos$$pdriver 000070788 951__ $$a2018-05-23-14:57:33 000070788 980__ $$aARTICLE