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Numerical symbols as explanations of human perceptual experience
2018-09-18
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<p>Why did humans develop precise systems for measuring experience, like numbers, clocks, andcalendars? I argue that precise representational systems were constructed by earlier generationsof humans because they recognized that their noisy perceptual systems were not capturingdistinctions that existed in the world. Abstract symbolic systems did not arise from perceptualrepresentations, but instead were constructed...
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- 60b0e9e6-b7b2-59ca-81a9-3b8436002ccd
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/d4jca