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I had always believed that numbers were an imaginary concept.
Then I read, in Popular Science or Discover or Scientific American, don't remember which, that while researchers were studying patients suffering from localized brain damage in an effort to determine where in the brain certain functions are performed, they found that some stroke patients lose specific math abilities (these functions are subsequently re-learned by other parts of the brain). More interestingly, damage to a specific enough area of the brain can render a patient unable to concieve of certain digits. Further exploration into this phenomenon revealed that we actually have a seperate clump of neurons representing each of the digits in our ten-based number system. That's right, the digits are hard-wired into our brains.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
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