A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness

Re:A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots ... by the8472 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:01PM (#24025687)

> his brain was still processing and identifying a face—a fairly high-level skill

Is it? I thought the brain has specialized parts for identifying faces (hence prosopagnosia) which makes this more of an automatism than higher reasoning.

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Re:A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots ... by eddytrex_ on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:14PM (#24025768)

Yeah, I remember learn that in this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGKBDfnk-iAQx4Kw9JeV... very cool

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Re:A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots ... by fao_ on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:55AM (#24026662)

Thank you for this, it's fascinating!

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Re:A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots ... by mistermann on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:55AM (#24028725)

This looks great, do you have any other similar lectures bookmarked?

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Re:A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots ... by rocqua on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:28AM (#24027040)

if you special case a high level skill, does it stop being a high level skill?

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