Strange Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Good article about research on how the brain manages location and how the same mechanism seems to be used for conceptual spaces: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/ Quote Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition Interesting that in mathematics we also have a more abstract concept of "space" that seems to map on to this. Another argument for the "mathematics is invented, not discovered" side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghideon Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I wonder if it is connected to the concept of spatial synesthesia? Can someone who visualize, for instance, numerical sequences in physical space be seeing/experiencing* some aspect of how the brain stores/encodes* the information? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesiahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214186/ *) I don't know the correct terms in this context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Had a chance of doing a masters project in this lab. Chose another one as i know nothing about neuroscience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raider5678 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 39 minutes ago, Strange said: Interesting that in mathematics we also have a more abstract concept of "space" that seems to map on to this. Another argument for the "mathematics is invented, not discovered" side? Perhaps. Though on a personal note, it gives programmers somewhere to look for when trying to program AI with abstract knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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