Sublime

The ubiquitousness of imitation in the human world stands in stark contrast with its rarity in the animal kingdom.

suggère pas que les neurones miroirs ont seuls présidé au grand bond en avant ou à la culture en général. Je dis seulement qu’ils ont joué un rôle clé dans ce processus.

Even when experts are willing to recognize the role of the mind, they continue to insist that it’s all innate!

My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. For example, one study found that when a chimpanzee learns an effective way to crack nuts open as a member of one group and then switches to a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will avoid using the superior nut cracking method just to blend in

Whatever evolutionary pressure pushed the human organism towards self-reflection also rendered it vulnerable to the myth of separateness. Perhaps this delusory myth was never the point. Perhaps the delusion of separateness is merely an unwelcome but natural side-effect.

désactiver sans danger temporairement certaines régions d’un cerveau humain adulte normal. Verrons-nous une soudaine efflorescence d’un talent artistique ou mathématique le temps de l’inactivation ?

ages of nineteen and forty-one. The volunteers played a game in which each group member was shown two different three-dimensional objects on a computer screen and asked to decide whether the first object could be rotated to match the second. The experimenters used an fMRI scanner to take snapshots of the volunteers’ brains as they conformed to or b

Dr. Utts observes unscientific behavior among scientists: “Most scientists reject the possible reality of [psychic] abilities without ever looking at data!…I have asked the debunkers if there is any amount of data that could convince them, and they generally have responded by saying, ‘probably not.’ I ask them what original research they have read,