Articles on the Nature of Thought

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  1. Imahamster Registered Senior Member

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    Over the last ten years great strides have been made in understanding the nature of thought. The ongoing research is very exciting. This thread is a place where people may share interesting articles describing the latest discoveries.
     
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    Ochre engraved from Blombos cave

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    "Two pieces of ochre engraved with geometrical patterns more than 70,000 years ago reveal that people were able to think abstractly and behave as modern humans much earlier than previously thought".

    http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/cape.nsf/pages/press
     
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    Thanks Merlijn. A wealth of papers at that site.
     
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    Cris provided the following link on the neural basis of consciousness:

    http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/crick-koch-cc-97.html

    This very interesting article is an overview of the neural evidence for regions of the brain that are directly involved in consciousness. The final section discusses how the neurological view of consciousness compares to the philosopher view.
     
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    Darn!

    Can't get the last link to work, Shaman. Bet it was a good one, too.

    Sigh.

    CB
     
  19. Counterbalance Registered Senior Member

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    Yaaaayyy! It worked! And it does look like a good one.

    thx,

    CB
     
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    The man who lives in a rainbow

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    6:43 a.m. March 19, 2002 PST
    WASHINGTON -- Black and white words on a page and the sounds of language explode into many colors in the mind of a middle-aged man. "Two" is blue, "2" is orange, "3" is pink and "traffic" is both blue and brown.

    The man has synesthesia -- an altered perception in which printed words and numbers burst with color, flavors take on shapes and the spoken language turns into a mental rainbow.
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    www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51163,00.html
     
  22. ImaHamster2 Registered Senior Member

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    When this hamster sees traffic, this hamster sees red.
     
  23. Shaman Registered Senior Member

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    ImaHamster2:
    Maybe it is not the same kind of traffic...or is something special in the hamster's visual system?
     

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