Wiring the human brain (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, April 16, 2012, 00:52 (4583 days ago) @ David Turell


> > You're also forgetting that a slang word for what I am is "code monkey!" 
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> > The difference IS abstract language. The foundational root of *everything* we know and do begins with language. Without symbolic abstraction, we're chimps.
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> It is a difference, but abstract language doesn't explain Shakespeare or dhw and his writings. All those monkeys typing away don't get one important word of a sonnet.-You're talking past me again. -Shakespeare is possible *only* because of abstract language, and our creative use of it. Creativity is nothing special: See something you've seen before, and apply it in a different circumstance. Language provides the bed to create culture, which then provides us with the means of memory and innovation. -Have you ever wondered why science is iterative?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"