Harmonia Philosophica

Tag: growing up

Children, Death, Dying, Existence, Humans, Life

2019/12/11

Metamorphosis.

In the ocean off the coast of Antarctica, a snail lives around scorching hydrothermal vents. Its name is Gigantopelta chessoia. From the outside, it looks like any other shelled slug. But on the inside, something strange is happening, scientists report in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, like no metamorphosis ever observed in any other…
Brain, Brain, Children, Non-Thinking, Thinking

2018/11/03

Hungry brain… Thirsty soul…

For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to their brains than other animals. Although the human brain makes up only 2 percent of body weight, it consumes more than 25 percent of our baseline energy budget. But a study published Oct. 31, 2017 in the Journal of Human…
Babies, Categories, Colours

2016/05/18

Babies categorizing colours…

Researchers have revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language. [1] We believe we have evolved and changed. But we are still that baby which tries to “categorize” everything it sees. Babies we still are. Trapped in the bodies…