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the history of how people have conceived of causality between human intelligence and human hands (and in which direction dependency may lie) is quite interestin
by pryce 23d ago
the history of how people have conceived of causality between human intelligence and human hands (and in which direction dependency may lie) is quite interesting.
"It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals."
—Anaxagoras, circa 450 BCE.
- slowin 23d agoVery insightful given that hands do have massive over representation in our brains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus