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some quick notes from a skim of a book that I obsessed about in 2011, Tor Nørretrandersâ The User Illusion https://t.co/MeM6mqQ4ew
ââŚpeople experience far more than their consciousness perceives; they interact far more with the world and with each other than their consciousness thinks they do⌠Consciousness plays a far smaller role in human life than Western culture has tended to believe.â
Heinrich Herz: âOne cannot escape the feeling that these equations have an existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.â (Re: Maxwellâs)
âWhat we mean by heat and measure in temperature is disordered movement.â âIn matter at a given temperature, molecules evince many different speeds⌠we cannot tell from the individual molecule to which temperature it belongs.â
the enticing idea of Maxwellâs Demon: theoretically, if you were smart and nimble enough to separate fast moving molecules from slow ones, you could reverse entropy but, next chapter asks, what is the price for being so clever? https://t.co/eRzKpVfq2g
but also⌠there are ways to compress knowledge⌠this book is a serious mental workout Iâm getting tired already lol https://t.co/1Oamqz7Fpb
one of my favorite examples of excellent reply game from Victor Hugoâs publisher: https://t.co/YeEyxzV6d6
a good communicator does not think only of himself, he also thinks about what the receiver has in his head https://t.co/Xd5GIjGhbJ
The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions that take place simultaneously during conversation in the heads and bodies of the conversers https://t.co/eocs5wKp0N
âThe radicality of the behaviorist opposition to any kind of introspection and self-observation is perhaps best demonstrated by the joke about the two behaviorists who have intercourse. Afterward one behaviorist says to the other, âThat was fine for you, but how was it for me?ââ
why do people go to watch plays when they already know everything that is going to happen? if the actors are good, they donât just merely recite their lines â they embody them with a fresh liveliness, true to the moment, and thatâs whatâs really enchanting to witness https://t.co/RBu0D19nb2
split-brain experiments (tests on epilepsy patients who had last-resort surgery to split the hemispheres) seem to suggest that people are capable of inventing bullshit explanations that they thoroughly believe with no hesitation or uncertainty https://t.co/UDDss0phFZ
âconsciousness presents us with sensory data that have already been heavily processed, but it does not tell us thatâ âconsciousness is depth but is experienced as surfaceâ imo lots of people have an uneasy, unhappy, contentious relationship with their consciousness
thereâs some excellent stuff about the deeper self beyond consciousness that he describes as the Me which is distinct from the I, and how it ties up with everything. Very evocative and very difficult to condense https://t.co/t6GtSgdAlj
âAlmost all spiritual traditions use posture and gesture as a means whereby we enter into relation with the divine⌠this bodyâs roots reach down into the soil of an organismic vitality where the conscious mind cannot followâ musicians, athletes, etc all know this too https://t.co/Vh5u8190fp
lol I was so excited https://t.co/OpUWZxOwxI
âFuck straight linesâ - Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser https://t.co/nqBOCTqvU3
âPeople are not transparent to themselves and are therefore unable to formulate their needs through the low bandwidth of languageâ but!! https://t.co/P2hZjITwpO
hereâs a bit I found really compelling, and further catalyzed my conviction to be a culture-worker: Tor argues that the threat and anxiety of nuclear apocalypse diminished because, as simple and naive as it sounds⌠people talked about it. Everyone did. And culture changed https://t.co/DJHVUAOVK8
âWe must have the courage to say naive things, do naive things, persistently and amicably over the decades, simply because we believe they are right and feel they are right and are conscious they are right.â ^ this surely influenced my riffs about Long Games https://t.co/Q8QIHJcpfY
on the sublime: https://t.co/nYnHVWIiDK
may you have the courage to dare to believe that the world is more than we see, more than we think, more than we know. â¤ď¸âđĽ /fin https://t.co/PyL4pOt53n
