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From: M.-L. Lessing <marless at gmx.de>
Subject: LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.09 (06) [E]

Dear Heather,



people who do math intensely will do many things intuitively, intuition
being just thinking transferred to lower and faster layers of the brain. I
think we all could do this, our brains would adapt to the challenge by
developing new abilities, perhaps such an inner blackboard. It would be fun
to make such an experiment with one's own brain. But the outcome is more or
less clear. Remember learning to drive: first we did it slowly with our
conscious mind, later everything went like walking...

But maybe is is not chance that the answer of your gifted teenage
mathematician arrived at the top right hand corner. In your minute excellent
computing description you say "I hold the 5 visually in the right hand side
of my inner sight", I find the same in my own practice. Somehow the result
comes right or is stored right, even if it is wrong :-) This may be because
we read left to right; if this is the reason it would be easy to verify by
comparison to other cultures. But I feel more reminded of what a NLP-scooled
person (NLP = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming)
once did to me: He told me to imagine the voice of my mother -- and while I
did, I looked down to the left. He told me to remember my childhood home,
and my eyes went up left. He told me to imagine my dream house, and my eyes
went up right... There is some brain mechanism behind this, and to be sure
neurologists have long since studied it all. To investigate this would be to
re-invent the wheel, but still it is so exciting :-)



This thread takes us from numbers to neurology and who knows where... Should
we drop it? Anyway, thanks for the treat :-)



Hartlich



Marlou

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