15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Simple Act of Reaching for a Glass of Wine
The simple act of reaching for a glass of wine or a pencil, or anything ever, requires a series of transformations. Tally doesn't mean you're doing a series of equations, rather, but you may be. But you need to transform the information into a suitable forment. And so if it comes in in eye centered coordinates and has to go out in hand centred or muscle centered coordinats, what gives? How do you know that that come for free? So the regions of the brain that do that are optimised for that kind of computation.
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