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Originally Posted by Flint
That's right, the digits are hard-wired into our brains.
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That's what the brain does, it develops areas that get stimulation as its developing, and prunes those neurons it doesn't need and reassigns them to other tasks.
There are tribes around the world, and specifically in Panama in this case, where they do not have a number system as we know it. They have, for example, only the numbers "one," "two," and "many" or "more than two." Researchers have done many tests on this, and have come to the conclusion that they're not just suffering from culture confusion, they
really can't tell the difference between having five rocks in one hand and four in the other. Their brains have disposed of those functions in favor of other ones.