Updated 3 years ago
http://nautil.us/blog/new-evidence-for-the-geometry-of-thought
“Humans are able to do things that today’s powerful computers can’t do—like learn language quickly and generalize from particulars with ease (to see, in other words, without much training, that lions and tigers are four-legged felines)—because we, unlike our computers, represent information in geometrical space.
…The hippocampus’ place and grid cells, map not only physical space but conceptual space. It appears that our representation of objects and concepts is very tightly linked with our representation of space.”
