Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper

Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by samuell on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:36PM (#26597245)

Could be, but to me it seems our brains are optimized a lot for operating in the spatio(temporal) world, and so spatial connections in particular seem to fit the wiring of our brains particularly well.

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Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by Pokepokalypse on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:20AM (#26602924)

You're probably on to something there. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution for finding food and avoiding predators. At best: a few thousand for managing linguistic skills. (or possibly hundreds of thousands, when it comes to our ancestor's pre-linguistic abilities).

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Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by nitrogen on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:14PM (#26598122)

IIRC research in mice has even found grid neurons that are specifically firing for spatial locations, beyond just mere association.

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Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by samuell on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:26PM (#26603440)

Would love to check that paper, if you find the link.

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Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by nitrogen on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:13PM (#26611511)

It most likely would've been on arstechnica.com/science, which usually has links to original papers.

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