I have a sneaking suspicion that most human talents come not from having mental resources that others do not, but by taking neural systems and tying them into different kinds of relationships with other modules.
I half suspect that the sections of my brain that are supposed to handle mathematics are devoted to processing language instead, for example.
Remarkable how many people confuse “what my mind does” with “what minds do”. Perhaps this is related to the ubiquitous fallacy that mathematics has a Platonic existence beyond other phenomena and our conclusions are therefore universally binding.
I have a sneaking suspicion that most human talents come not from having mental resources that others do not, but by taking neural systems and tying them into different kinds of relationships with other modules.
I half suspect that the sections of my brain that are supposed to handle mathematics are devoted to processing language instead, for example.
Remarkable how many people confuse “what my mind does” with “what minds do”. Perhaps this is related to the ubiquitous fallacy that mathematics has a Platonic existence beyond other phenomena and our conclusions are therefore universally binding.