Category: Harmonia Philosophica
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Copying sounds. Speaking?
Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for speech and language. (1) Listen. Speak. Oh child. How did you learn to speak? If not by listening to people…
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Fairy tales…
But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.~ C.S. Lewis When we are kids we love fairy tales. But now we have grown up. And we consider fairy tales… fairy tales. Now we believe in science. Now we believe in what we can see. Now we believe in us…
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I don’t want to be 8…
A child crying… Because her birthday is coming… And she does not want to become 9… She wants to stay 8 for ever… Oh, dear child. Listen to me. You will be a child for ever. As your mom and me. Don’t be fooled by the aging skin. Or the tired eyes. Inside the soul,…
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Essence over Form…
What clues does our memory use to connect a current situation to a situation from the past? A study conducted by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, – working in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University in France – demonstrated that similarities in structure and essence (the heart of a situation) guide our…
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Ancestral asymmetries…
The left and right side of the brain are involved in different tasks. This functional lateralization and associated brain asymmetry are well documented in humans, but little is known about brain asymmetry in our closest living relatives, the great apes. Using endocasts (imprints of the brain on cranial bones), scientists now challenge the long-held notion…
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