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by bodi
2937 days ago
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> There is no number seven. I mean there seven trees, seven stones, yet there is no number seven. It is our mental construct. Crows, horses, and dolphins all have well documented[1] abilities to count numbers therefore as inconvenient and suggestive as it may be, the "number seven" most definitely exists somewhere outside human mental constructs and likely originates inside the abstract fuzzy designs that produce elementary consciousness. 1 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-animals-have-... |
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that sounds pretty close to what i'm saying - similar brains (and i do think that many animals' brains are much closer to us than we casually think they are) given similar experience (seeing seven stones, seven birds) produce similar constructs (incl. an aggregation/averaging of some aspects of that experience). That doesn't necessarily mean though the real existence of that aggregation/averaging (ie. what we call "number seven"), only the neuron config/sequence what actually encodes it is real.