Disclaimer: I am not at all a neuroscientist. I’m just a guy that has an interest in it and saw a pretty cute connection.

Of the different forms of arithmetic, I believe that subtraction and division, which if we were being honest is just a glorified form of subtraction, are the most difficult manipulations to perform $-$ why, you might ask, well I believe the reason is due to object permanence.

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