http://rj3sp.instablogs.com/ Comments - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif http://rj3sp.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:53:34 +0000 http://gracieb.instablogs.com http://gracieb.instablogs.com Grace Calderon This is very interesting. Is that at all possible?

]]> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://rj3sp.instablogs.com http://rj3sp.instablogs.com Rob Jongschaap
It is often assumed that counting is an innate part of human cognition, said Gibson, ”but here is a group that does not count. They could learn, but it’s not useful in their culture, so they’ve never picked it up.”]]> Apparently it is. Citing the article:



It is often assumed that counting is an innate part of human cognition, said Gibson, ”but here is a group that does not count. They could learn, but it’s not useful in their culture, so they’ve never picked it up.”

]]> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://gracieb.instablogs.com http://gracieb.instablogs.com Grace Calderon But what about really useful things such as days of the week and months of a year. They can totally ignore minutes and hours, but days and months? :)

]]> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://rj3sp.instablogs.com http://rj3sp.instablogs.com Rob Jongschaap
Maybe their culture is far ahead of us, recognizing quality being more important than quantity :-)]]> Apparently they are just interested in qualitative, not in quantitative things.



Maybe their culture is far ahead of us, recognizing quality being more important than quantity :-)

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