language (2)

unconscious but doing languaging

Via medicalxpress.com when scrolling on my phone, “Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.” So I’ve become aware of the following article in Nature “Plasticity and Language in the Anaesthetized Human Hippocampus.” I took a few things away from this quick scroll,…

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I mean what have the symbols ever done for us?

Christopher Brennan calls the gaping issue an ‘annoying wobble between’. I like that, it is less pompous than my Janus dancing the two-faced ratios. My wife Mona went to ante-natal exercises called Pregnastics here in Hobart, and her classmate, an old friend, Anitra, said that it was ‘really just a wobble and a chat’. Our to-be-born child is now 21…

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