The man who can't see numbers

This is a weird finding for the study of human brain function;

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html

@humy said
This is a weird finding for the study of human brain function;

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html

A possible reason for why RFS is unable to see or recognize numbers is that numbers by themselves are not things. A number is an abstract informing us about something... it tells us how many.
The statement "I have a tuba" is a complete thought and doesn't require an explanation.
However if someone says "I have 8" the question "8 what?" naturally arises. The statement "I have 8" is an incomplete thought.

What if instead of showing RFS the number '8' he was shown a picture of 8 faces. Would he be able to determine how many faces he was seeing?

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He obviously wasn't implying numbers aren't just purely mathematical 'things' as in an abstraction and you know that and are just giving your usual hateful racist anti-westerner BS propaganda rhetoric against us making you no better than those that give hateful racist anti-black rhetoric and you fool nobody here.
I noticed from your previous posts your understanding of mathematics is nothing to brag about and DeepThought once said he thought it was "nothing special". So you are also being a hypocrite; But you are being a hypocrite anyway for calling us racist when you yourself are racist.

I am sure most of you have now already heard of such cases but I still find it interesting that brain damage can not only result in strange inability to see numbers but can sometimes instead lead to GREATER mathematical ability!
Here is just one real life example of that;

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I wasn't specifically looking for this but I stumbled on this video that explains that the common propagated idea that we unusually only use about 10% of our brain is in fact just BS myth (which I already knew) and also explains WHY it is BS myth because it explains why that would make no evolutionary sense since there would be a huge biological cost to have a useless 90% mass of brain we don't use and natural selection would have resulted in us evolving to lose that 90% mass of brain if it was indeed not used!
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@lemon-lime said
A possible reason for why RFS is unable to see or recognize numbers is that numbers by themselves are not things. A number is an abstract informing us about something... it tells us how many.
The statement "I have a tuba" is a complete thought and doesn't require an explanation.
However if someone says "I have 8" the question "8 what?" naturally arises. The statement "I ...[text shortened]... r '8' he was shown a picture of 8 faces. Would he be able to determine how many faces he was seeing?

The article implied it was something to do with the symbol. Also, he couldn't recognise faces superimposed over the number. The article doesn't say whether he can cope with a question like: "What is five plus three?", but does say that he can't read "5+3". So he's seeing the symbol, but it's being scrambled somewhere along the line. He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.

@deepthought said
He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.

yes, and that's the part I find really weird.

@deepthought said
The article implied it was something to do with the symbol. Also, he couldn't recognise faces superimposed over the number. The article doesn't say whether he can cope with a question like: "What is five plus three?", but does say that he can't read "5+3". So he's seeing the symbol, but it's being scrambled somewhere along the line. He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.

The problem seems to hinge on what the symbol represents, and not the symbol itself. If the symbol 'R' was understood to be a number and the symbol '5' a letter, the subject would likely be able to see the 5 but not the R.

Neural pathways and processes for understanding letters and numbers are established when we are children. So it seems the inability to see symbols representing numbers is a neurological problem. It suggests the internal mental process for 'reading' symbols is somewhat different for letters and numbers, but the wild part of this is the inability to so much as see the symbols themselves.

edit: The only thing I can think of that makes sense is that the mental processing of letters and numbers is not in the same place, or wired up in the same way. The inability to so much as see the symbols for numbers could be directly related to physical damage to a part of the brain holding that information.

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I have 14

How many do you have?

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your post wasn't purposely about "pure mathematics" but rather, and we know this from what you racist rants against many other posters in previous threads hypocritically calling THOSE posters racist, a hateful racially motivated claim about Lemon Lime's "... ignorance of mathematics" (your words in that post that you imply is just only all about "pure mathematics" ) just because you think he is a 'westerner', and we all know about your racist views and rhetoric against westerners because we all have read all that BS before, and with the maths you posted that obviously most of us science experts ALREADY know about being a stupid cover for that which convinces nobody here. If he was of exactly the same race and country or origin as you and you knew it then you wouldn't have call him "... ignorance of mathematics".
+ you have demonstrated in some previous posts that your understanding of maths is nothing special and certainly nothing to brag about. My understanding of maths is ALSO nothing special and certainly nothing to brag about BUT the big difference here is that, unlike you, I do NOT pretend it is superior to yours or most people's here, let alone pretend that has something to do with race.

@humy said
yes, and that's the part I find really weird.

@deepthought He doesn't have the same problem with letters so it's not that it is a symbol, it's specific to the symbols used to represent numbers.
@humy yes, and that's the part I find really weird.

In the article it says he can't see the numbers 2 through 9.
So apparently he can see 1 and 0 (zero)