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From: thant@horus.SGI.COM (Thant Tessman)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Handedness
Summary: left/right is not abstract
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Date: 25 Apr 89 18:52:27 GMT
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In article <1256@mmm.UUCP>, cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
> In article <338@lloyd.camex.uucp>, kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes:
> > did humans have any need for the abstract concepts of left and right?
> 
> I'm not at all convinced that the concept of left and right is very abstract.

An interesting book is "The Origin of Consciousness Through the Breakdown
of the Bicameral Mind."  Even if its main premise stretches things a bit,
it does make the point that left versus right is much more "built in" than one
would guess.

thant@sgi.com