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  Quote from: The production of the world-image throught the centre of consciousness - Dr. J. J. van der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion (1928)

  “When I take up a book and drop it on the ground only one event takes place and that is the event as it is in the world of the Real. There is nothing unreal about that event; it is entirely, wholly and thoroughly real. But my awareness of the event, the way in which it presents itself in my ...

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  Mapping the brain. MIT neuroscientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons

  The scientists, including several at MIT, are working on technologies needed to accelerate the slow and laborious process that the C. elegans researchers originally applied to worms. With these technologies, they intend to map the connectomes of our animal cousins, and eventually perhaps even ...

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  The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages | Scientific American

  Bilingual people process certain words faster than others. The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two ...

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  Language structure is partly determined by social structure | Lab Spaces

  Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world. The study argues that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms ...

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  Do Insect Superorganisms Have Implications for Human Society - New Research Says "Yes" | The Daily Galaxy

  As this satellite image from space shows, the Earth is fast becoming a planet of megacities. Every week humans create the equivalent of a city the size of Vancouver, Canada. Can human "megacities" learn from insect societies? A team of researchers including scientists from the University of ...

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