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This article is so fascinating... and it reminds me of one of my favorite topics! I'm excited to share this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideasthesia#Neu

This article is so fascinating... and it reminds me of one of my favorite topics! I'm excited to share this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideasthesia#Neurophysiology_of_ideasthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideasthesia#Neurophysiology_of... > Ideasthesia is congruent with the theory of brain functioning known as practopoiesis. According to that theory, concepts are not an emergent property of highly developed, specialized neuronal networks in the brain, as is usually assumed; rather, concepts are proposed to be fundamental to the very adaptive principles by which living systems and the brain operate.

CyanBird 5y ago
Oh, that's interesting and it lines up with Chomskys ideas that language "surged" as a self soothing mechanism, as a mental scheme where the "individual" can "think words" to self soothe and make sense of its environment , our differences as humans is our capacity to verbalize and structuralize it more easily than other species such as maybe dogs, or zebras Whales, Elephants and many others can achieve strong degrees of said structuralization and verbalization of the "language" in their minds as well