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Could be, but to me it seems our brains are optimized a lot for operating in the spatio(temporal) world, and so spatial connections in particular seem to fit th

Could be, but to me it seems our brains are optimized a lot for operating in the spatio(temporal) world, and so spatial connections in particular seem to fit the wiring of our brains particularly well.

nitrogen 6y ago
IIRC research in mice has even found grid neurons that are specifically firing for spatial locations, beyond just mere association.
- samuell 6y ago
  Would love to check that paper, if you find the link.
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    It most likely would've been on arstechnica.com/science, which usually has links to original papers.
Pokepokalypse 6y ago
You're probably on to something there. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution for finding food and avoiding predators. At best: a few thousand for managing linguistic skills. (or possibly hundreds of thousands, when it comes to our ancestor's pre-linguistic abilities).