Understanding Understanding

I just had a reflective realism experience I had to share with you.

“Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. “

Fascinating article about how various brain processes combine to make humans naturally inclined to “supernatural thinking.”

subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less.

“Our brains automatically consider many possible words and their meanings before we’ve even heard the final sound of the word.”