This article has been circled in the net for weeks.
And my first thought was that: WTF.
Actually, if you do an experiment where you put
two group of objects on the table: group one with
one object, and group two with two objects. And ask
a person in the tribe to differentiate, I'm pretty
sure they will say objects in group two are more than
in group one.
That is the fundamental of numerology. Each number actually
is just a distinct symbol, as long as the subject can compare
two objects more than one object and less than three objects, and
so on... we can confirm that they have a capability of counting things.
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This article has been circled in the net for weeks. And my first thought was that: WTF. Actually, if you do an experiment where you put two group of objects on the table: group one with one object, and group two with two objects. And ask a person in the tribe to differentiate, I'm pretty sure they will say objects in group two are more than in group one. That is the fundamental of numerology. Each number actually is just a distinct symbol, as long as the subject can compare two objects more than one object and less than three objects, and so on... we can confirm that they have a capability of counting things.
High grade scientists use equation to express ideas, weak minds use ton of words.