Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: As neurologist Oliver W Sacks described lhim ir Seeing Voices Joseph saw, distinguished categorized used; he had no problems with perceptual categorization or generalization but he could not it seemed go much beyond this hold abstract ideas in mind reflect play plan He seemed completely literal unable to juggle images or hypotheses or possibilities unable to enter an imaginative or figurative realm He seemed like an animal or an infant to be stuck in the present to be confined to literal and immediate perception though made aware of this by a consciousness that no infant could have To understand why humans are so intelligent we need to understand how our ancestors remodeled the apes symbolic repertoire and enhanced it by inventing syntax Wild chimpanzees use about three dozen different voc ...
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