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what’s a good explanation for why those head massagers only feel good when someone else uses them on you? how do prediction errors tie into that? https://t.co/ZiwHncn6WK
@hermittoday this is where "prediction error" feels more like physics than anything usefully explanatory at normal scales to me but I'd guess we have some ongoing prediction error for distance/separateness and this does effective vagus nerve stimulation which hits the intimacy button
@hermittoday probably the same reason why you can't tickle yourself. https://t.co/MHPbu5w0PF
@hermittoday I believe that the relaxation caused by such instruments (which approximates massage's function) is central to fascia, and if you have to use a limb to use this, then it will not apply nicely BC it is trying to do mechanical "magic" to a tissue that gets tense at that same time.
For the same reason being God would be boring. Or, from an Active Inference perspective: when you close the causal loop, you’re no longer engaged in “epistemic foraging”, and the dopaminergic expectation hits stop coming. Or, comedically, for the same reason someone invented The Stranger (https://t.co/uNcidGxIDv).