Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:pic.twitter.com/CDznxg37p1
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Cool, thanks! What I love about neuroscience is that I’ve been studying it for almost 25 years, and there are still such basic facts that I never knew about.
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Link to refuting the pubmed article that Luke posted? Not saying you are wrong, just good practice to cite over tweet.
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It’s mostly persistence of vision. It’s designed to look impressive but most humans could do this without any training.
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How credible is the theory that this was not a conscious decision but it's a result of our ancestral apes encountering psilocybin?
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