RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
December 26, 2018 at 2:32 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2018 at 2:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If thought has a neural correlate, then it would be inaccurate to continue referring to them as abstractions...or, conversely, our idea of abstraction may be in error. We already understand that certain classes of abstraction (essentially, the entirely of mechanical computation) actually do have physical referents that exist in a place and time. It may be that the purported dichotomy between abstraction and objectivity is an artifact of ignorance.
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