Category: Harmonia Philosophica
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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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Old mummy… Silent voices…
The sound of a vocal tract from a 3,000-year-old mummy has been recreated using CT scans, a 3D-printer, and a voice synthesizer. Details of this achievement—such as it is—were published in Scientific Reports. (1) Old voices. Lost voices. Meaning nothing now. Frightening isn’t it? Why don’t we understand those voices? Why do we need to?…
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