On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > If there were identical triplets, and one of them grew up on the other side > of the world and spoke a different language, while the others grew up in the > same state and spoke the same language, do you think that a neuroscientist > could figure out with certainty which triplet spoke the other language (not > by looking at trace compounds that would identify a geographic region, etc, > but strictly by the vast number of different words and phrases that they > use)?
It's an assumption in science that the language difference is due to brain difference. That's not to say that our techniques are at present refined enough to see a difference, but there must be one if language is due to the brain. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
