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Feb. 13th, 2009 04:43 pmThis article offers an opportunity to understand in concrete terms what Plato is talking about when he says that the soul is made out of Being, Sameness and Difference:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141143.htm
One cognitive capacity that is vital to human intelligence is the ability to determine whether two or more items are the same or different - a skill the famous American psychologist William James called the very "backbone" of our thinking … Wasserman's research shows that baboons and pigeons can do that, too … Wasserman and his associates discovered that both baboons and pigeons also understand the relations between relations … For example, the relation between A and A and the relation between B and B is the same: same equals same. So, too, is the relation between A and B and the relation between C and D: different equals different. But, the relation between A and A and the relation between C and D is different: same does not equal different.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141143.htm
One cognitive capacity that is vital to human intelligence is the ability to determine whether two or more items are the same or different - a skill the famous American psychologist William James called the very "backbone" of our thinking … Wasserman's research shows that baboons and pigeons can do that, too … Wasserman and his associates discovered that both baboons and pigeons also understand the relations between relations … For example, the relation between A and A and the relation between B and B is the same: same equals same. So, too, is the relation between A and B and the relation between C and D: different equals different. But, the relation between A and A and the relation between C and D is different: same does not equal different.
