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Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind

Posted by kdawson on from the my-tool-myself dept.

TwistedOne151 writes to recommend a ScienceNOW article describing the work of a team of Italian neurobiologists who have found the roots of the capacity for tool use in the primate brain: the brain treats the tool as part of the body. The experiment as described is passing clever.

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  1. Re:Define:tool by doogieb · · Score: 5, Funny

    "heck, half of us or more have momorized where the keys" - surely +1 Irony

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  2. Re:Define:tool by aadvancedGIR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, in the first case, you're a proud american learning to protect his family, and in the second, you're a terrorist training on a murder simulator. Oops, I thought you were asking about moral differences, my bad.

  3. Re:Same as a car by Sciryl+Llort · · Score: 5, Funny

    You chose the wrong tool. When going through the desert, you should ride an anonymous equine creature. You'll enjoy the dry weather. Be sure to make a note of your personal details and keep it safe, as a lack of external hostility may provoke amnesia.

  4. Re:Define:tool by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I highly doubt that a primate could process enough information to write even a single word on a typewriter
    O RLY? What are you then - some kind of lizard?
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