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Regina Barber

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The trouble of zero

They really like that number.

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The trouble of zero

Yeah, we did an episode about this like way back at the beginning of last year and like how if you get above four, you're not counting, you're actually comparing.

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The trouble of zero

And when you're below four, that's when you're literally like your brain is counting.

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The trouble of zero

So you're not counting anymore past four.

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The trouble of zero

Yeah, it's like phone numbers, right?

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The trouble of zero

We're in chunks of three and four to like for us to remember.

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The trouble of zero

Same with like, you know, social security number and stuff like that.

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The trouble of zero

So fairly recently, these like two researchers were like, hey, if zero is special, like in math and history, maybe, and this is what you were saying, maybe it's special in neuroscience.

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The trouble of zero

Maybe we think about it differently.

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The trouble of zero

One group looked at patients with epilepsy.

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The trouble of zero

They already had these like electrodes in their brain.

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The trouble of zero

So the researchers were able to see like how individual neurons were firing.

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The trouble of zero

And the other one?

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The trouble of zero

So these researchers, they're looking at neurons either specifically or as a group, you know, firing.

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The trouble of zero

What did they find?

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The trouble of zero

Was there like a new discovery on how we think about Xerox?