Researcher proposes inferring ancient potters' recursive minds from pottery patterns
abenitezburraco · x · 2026-10-07
Cognition researcher abenitezburraco notes hierarchical reasoning varies across humans (adults vs children, English vs Tsimane speakers) and species (monkeys, crows) rather than being all-or-none.
He proposes a cross-disciplinary idea: analyze geometrical/abstract patterns in ancient pottery to infer the makers' recursive mind, paralleling existing attempts to infer working-memory abilities from cultural stasis and dynamics.
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