Do we do mathematics with our visual brain? (Q1284608)

The author argues that the ``chance occurrence of mathematical thinking and transmission in animals relying predominantly on their visual system began as an unselected consequence of selection and only later became itself a selected marker.\dots Neural mechanisms that allowed the emergence of the vision-dependent abilities -- computation, abstraction, symbolic representation, and graphic mimesis -- might have become crucial\dots even before the emergence of language, by leading to an increase and diversification of behavioral complexity.\dots If mathematical intuition and proof could be understood in the context of the anatomy and the physiology of brain structures, this would be a start in understanding the functional logic of the brain\dots''.