23 month ago
plasticbag : Steven Pinker writes on 'The Mystery of Consciousness' in Time Magazine... - The brain has an evaluative quality that—along with biochemical stimuli—causes individuals to operate in coherent ways. It should be beneficial to an individual to model other entities' behaviour. Maybe consciousness is that skill turned on
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on the Pirahã people has the most references to back it up, so I'm linking to it instead of all the other sites - The Pirahã apparently have almost no way of counting whatsoever and appear to be unteachable in that regard. They also have incredibly limited kinship concerns, limited sense of colour, ridiculously simple pronouns and whistle their language
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