We process mathematical logic differently to language

However, it is remarkable, that the neural network involved, consisting of intraparietal and prefrontal regions, only involves Broca's area in a surprisingly selective way. This seems to imply that despite structural analogies of common and current formal languages, at the neural level, mathematics and natural language are processed differently, in principal.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005599

Give new meaning to thinking in pictures...

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Beautiful things for today...

Knots are fantastic...

http://knotplot.com/complex/
http://knotplot.com/postscript/
http://knotplot.com/

Music... well a bit of saudade...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYqwkYDRVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OrqQuiW7gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQNFBO9eOp0


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On our Ballardian Society...

Looks like a nice movie... Do I see strains of Bladerunner in there?

http://www.ballardian.com/like-alice-in-wonderland-nordlund-on-ballard

JG Ballard .... What a loss to our society... (in the globalised sense of what society means nowadays...)

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Stop all the clocks and hold daai foon sissi!

Sorry WH! but I need to smile today so I can hide the tears...

I believe that we waste a day when we do not learn something new...

Today I came across Mimesis and the usage of Diegesis and its application in films...

And so I learn something new each day...

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Watching CSI last night...

After reading this:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227091.900-review-how-storytelling-shaped-humanity.html

I started wondering, if people listen to stories (in the broadest sense of the word... I include tv/films here too) to get a deeper insight into the society they live.

What does a programme like CSI say about society? why is CSI(s) so successful? or is this our Ballardian society?? do they provide us with a certain voyeurism on violence, the various flavours of human sexuality? or does the violence become sexual?

Because stories shape our minds, do the Hidden Persuaders also use these programmes to effectively control our behaviour? I would like know if there are studies that show a correlation between crime rates and these programmes? do these programmes increase or decrease incidents of crime? or do they service as an outlet for our more violent tendencies?

How do these programmes influence our view of American society? does it have a homogenising effect?

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