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14 Post author: NancyLebovitz 31 July 2013 09:18AM

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Comment author: sediment 02 August 2013 09:57:09PM 6 points [-]

This seems like a fake explanation, or curiosity-stopper. I mean, natch, the difference has to be cognitive in some sense, in that it's a mental phenomenon and therefore relates to James_Miller's brain. But giving "cognitive dissimilarity" as an answer and treating it as an open-and-shut case seems pretty unenlightening.