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Re: [Phys-l] Are Concepts Instantiated in Brain Synapses? (was Bunkum Awards #2. . . .)



Bob's complaint caused me to read to the references the thread's post. I suspect Bob has an aversion to RH's posts, as, being more favourable inclined, I had little difficulty. Furthermore, it reminded me of a study (ca. 1990) of an examination of babies' purported ability to count. These children were of preverbal communication age . I've forgotten the detail, but it essentially was a peekaboo w/ several objects successively shown, such that, if a set was missing or had an extra object at some point, it elicited babies' distress. I think the experimenters were familiar w/ clever Hans and made effort to avoid that pitfall.

bc, usually finds it worth the slightly extra struggle, and thinks the cross posting was entirely appropriate

p.s. IIRC, Lakoff most recent, "Whose Freedom?" also mentions such neuroscience .....

LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

Are you trying to convey some information to us? I find this screed to
be totally incomprehensible and impossible to follow with all its
idiosyncratic use of separators. This is the second one that you have
scattergunned across multiple lists this morning.
Please stop!

Bob LaMontagne


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Subject: [Phys-l] Are Concepts Instantiated in Brain Synapses? (was

Bunkum

Awards #2. . . .)

*******************************************************
ABSTRACT: In response to my post "Bunkum Awards #2. . ." EvalTalk's
Liam Rourke asked "Could you provide a reference to the
neuroscientist and his data that convinced you that 'neuroscience
tells us that each of the concepts we have - the long-term concepts



cut, as usual and as reminded.