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This is a weird finding for the study of human brain function;
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html
@humy saidA possible reason for why RFS is unable to see or recognize numbers is that numbers by themselves are not things. A number is an abstract informing us about something... it tells us how many.
This is a weird finding for the study of human brain function;
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html
The post that was quoted here has been removedHe obviously wasn't implying numbers aren't just purely mathematical 'things' as in an abstraction and you know that and are just giving your usual hateful racist anti-westerner BS propaganda rhetoric against us making you no better than those that give hateful racist anti-black rhetoric and you fool nobody here.
@lemon-lime saidThe article implied it was something to do with the symbol. Also, he couldn't recognise faces superimposed over the number. The article doesn't say whether he can cope with a question like: "What is five plus three?", but does say that he can't read "5+3". So he's seeing the symbol, but it's being scrambled somewhere along the line. He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.
A possible reason for why RFS is unable to see or recognize numbers is that numbers by themselves are not things. A number is an abstract informing us about something... it tells us how many.
The statement "I have a tuba" is a complete thought and doesn't require an explanation.
However if someone says "I have 8" the question "8 what?" naturally arises. The statement "I ...[text shortened]... r '8' he was shown a picture of 8 faces. Would he be able to determine how many faces he was seeing?
@deepthought saidyes, and that's the part I find really weird.
He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.
@deepthought saidThe problem seems to hinge on what the symbol represents, and not the symbol itself. If the symbol 'R' was understood to be a number and the symbol '5' a letter, the subject would likely be able to see the 5 but not the R.
The article implied it was something to do with the symbol. Also, he couldn't recognise faces superimposed over the number. The article doesn't say whether he can cope with a question like: "What is five plus three?", but does say that he can't read "5+3". So he's seeing the symbol, but it's being scrambled somewhere along the line. He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.
The post that was quoted here has been removedyour post wasn't purposely about "pure mathematics" but rather, and we know this from what you racist rants against many other posters in previous threads hypocritically calling THOSE posters racist, a hateful racially motivated claim about Lemon Lime's "... ignorance of mathematics" (your words in that post that you imply is just only all about "pure mathematics" ) just because you think he is a 'westerner', and we all know about your racist views and rhetoric against westerners because we all have read all that BS before, and with the maths you posted that obviously most of us science experts ALREADY know about being a stupid cover for that which convinces nobody here. If he was of exactly the same race and country or origin as you and you knew it then you wouldn't have call him "... ignorance of mathematics".
@humy said@deepthought He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.
yes, and that's the part I find really weird.