Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-26]: A French research group studied some Amazon tribes and found out that geometry is innate in humans [source: web news]. These "primitive" people had the same knowledge of geometry principles like students who had been taught the same things in official schools. The most remarkable aspect of the study is that the "primitive" people had more advanced abilities to understand non-Euclidian geometries than the students of the western world have. Maybe this is because too much education makes you blind. If one has learnt to think in a specific way, how can he unlearn, be innovative and think “out of the box” ?(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
