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Why nothing matters: It took centuries for people to embrace the zero. Now it’s helping neuroscientists understand how the brain perceives absences.

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Why nothing matters: It took centuries for people to embrace the zero. Now it’s helping neuroscientists understand how the brain perceives absences.

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Why zero could unlock how the brain perceives absence | Aeon Essays

It took centuries for people to embrace the zero. Now it’s helping neuroscientists understand how the brain perceives absences

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And then programmers invented null
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  Dude, hasn’t he apologized enough?! 😉
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    An apology is useless if you then go around to making nullptr

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