by Peter | Apr 17, 2026 | brain, handedness, left-right
There at least three answers: It is a ‘medical condition, first described in symptom terms in 1798 by the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton as “the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to any one object.” In 1902, the...
by Peter | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
The homunculus In the Middle Ages, some believed the homunculus -the little human with a voice inside our heads- told us what to think and do. But, of course, one of the problems with this belief, was the question of who or what told the homuncuus what to tell us? The...
by Peter | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Naming isn’t explaining! In the case of naming a child it’s linking a ‘sound pattern’ to the newborn. In those cultures where naming is delayed until the infants’‘character’ becomes apparent, naming is synonymous with placing the infant in the same ‘sound...
