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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L.
Lessing</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.09 (06) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Heather,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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...</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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 "<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hold the 5 visually in the right hand side of my inner sight"</span>,
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 = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming</a>)
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 :-)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This thread takes us from numbers to neurology and who knows
where... Should we drop it? Anyway, thanks for the treat :-)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hartlich</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marlou<br style="">
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