You Are What You Write – The Alphabet Effect.
Broadly speaking, there are two distinct types of writing systems – logographic and alphabetic. A logographic system is one…
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“Look at the bird…” – information versus knowledge.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re…
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More About Mirror Neurons – Monkey See – Monkey Do A mirror neuron is a part of the…
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We are more than just a collection of cells and matter – but our physical reality may be…