The brain is pretty cool
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Someone calling himself "Foone" posted some stuff about how human vision works with dozens of twitter posts, which was shared with dozens of screen shots on Imgur. Crustysmegma asked "can someone put this into a format that isn't Twitter?"
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I know that we are not supposed to quote anything in its entirety, but I wanted to present someone else's material in a more professional format without changing it drastically. I did replace a part at the end with a [...]. I was tired of writing and that part seemed redundant, but if it will really make you happy, you can thank Qussow: "TL;DR Your brain is a lazy chump 'cause reality is predictable 99.99% of the time and now that we know that, we can mess up stuff hard."
Edit! I forgot the source! Push-ups for me! https://imgur.com/gallery/3GBsZLE |
Neat, neat, neat!
My favourite university course was the very last one I took (I saved an elective). The course was Intro to Neuropsychology, and was full of stuff like this. If I'd taken it earlier, I probably would have taken a lot more. Maybe even switched departments. |
Saccadic masking is precisely why drivers hit motorcyclists.
Narrow objects directly at the center of our focus are sometimes masked by our vision. Which is why you MUST shift focus from time to time, because peripheral vision is more adept at detecting riders. And why, as a rider, it's sometimes advisable to make yourself bigger than you are. Move around a bit in lane so you're not stuck in a driver's blind spot. - Also, AWESOME share, Xist! |
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Yup! That was probably the single most interesting thing I learned in the motorcycle safety course: "slalom" in your lane when coming into certain higher risk situations, like a car signalling to turn left across your path, or waiting to pull out from a side street or driveway. I swear I once saw a driver start to turn across my path and suddenly stop (with a startled look on her face) when I started weaving around in my lane. |
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Unless they're total jerks and will cut you off either way. |
Nobody cuts me off when I drive the DOT yellow (Big Yeller) truck. I've had people wait 1/8th of a mile down the road for me to pass at 30 MPH rather than pull ahead of me. Meanwhile, everyone is eager to get out ahead of my Prius.
Perhaps that is another reason people like pickups; they are given more respect on the road. |
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People cut off my school bus all of the time.
They assumed I was driving slowly? I only drove slowly after hitting my brakes to avoid hitting someone that cut me off. I maintained the speed limit wherever possible. I do not have any idea if anyone tailgated me. What is the worst that could happen? https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1530904904 |
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Speaking of people pulling out and leaving no time to brake; on that same road, just a quarter mile away from where the bus had pulled out in front of me, a car did the same thing. That incident was so severe that I had to steer left as violently as traction would allow, and that sent me off the left side of the road, off a 2ft drop into a farmers field. I always wondered if the guy noticed what he had caused as I whizzed past him and out into the field. He didn't stop. I had to drive about a half mile through the field to find a slope onto the raised road. Man that Subie was an incredible machine. |
That's a pretty exhaustive First Post, but neglects the mystery of the color Magenta completely.
I read Eye and Brain after it came out in 1966. TLDR; the eyes are specialized portions of the brain that extend out on stalks called the optic nerve. Preprocessors if you will. It's turtles all the way down. |
I am sure that bad drivers drive every type of vehicle, although there is absolutely no excuse for a bus driver to cut off anyone. Specialized training and possibly carrying children?
There was a discussion regarding magenta on imgur, but I carelessly neglected to link the source! What kind of college man am I?! I appended it to #2. |
It seems weird to break up the text into blocks like that, instead of one long graphic. But I Loaded 9 More Images and still no mention of Magenta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPYGJjKVco |
The Imgur post I finally shared in #2 did not involve magenta, people in the comments did, and the strangely-split-up images were screen captures of a crazy number of twitter posts.
I guess that I could have merged the screen shot into one long image, but why? :) |
I didn't get that far. It appears to me a culture of people expecting thought to be packetized into 140-character blocks. I'm as big a fan of the TCP-IP stack as the next guy but those packets are a scaffolding for HTML which affords a richer communication medium. Then they chop it up again.
I think there is something strange about pink, too. Maybe I'll remember what. livescience.com:Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can't See Quote:
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This is your brain.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...phin/DD006.jpg This is your brain on drugs. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1442603481.jpg Sorry. That's just what the title of the thread made me think of. JJ |
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Something like this would have made sense: https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1531077383
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Okay, so now it's a problem?
What are the 50, 1,697 and 3,669? Quotes, .... and hearts? Are you Internet famous? |
I am not Foone, I am Xist. See? It is on the left!
Fifty quotes, 1,697 shares, loved (saved?) 3,669 times, and then a button to sacrifice it to Cthulhu. Opera does not like the name Cthulhu. It insists I misspelled "Cathlene." Opera, what did Cathlene do to you and how long ago should you have gotten over it? Small-f Freebeard, what is a problem now? |
Ya. Foone equals sycophant. I can't copypasta the 'physical...eyes' thing out of your graphic. You'll just have to figure it out.
So the 1,697 is Shares. Is that recursive, showing re-shares and re-re-shares? In Eye and Brain they talked about shining a narrow beam of light into the edge of the pupil. It opens, catches more light, contracts and catches less, in a steady rhythm. Then you can deduce how long it take the impulse to travel the optic nerve and back. |
I cannot imagine that it is recursive.
I used Twitter briefly four years ago, although it seems longer. I worked for a brand-new bakery. In fact, I think I spent longer waiting to start than I actually spent working for them. I was offered the job while applying to USAA. I wish that I had forgone this opportunity. The owner's wife supposedly did all kinds of things to promote the bakery on Facebook, including posting four pictures. Four? That is not a large number! I ran a Twitter page for the bakery. Whatever she posted I made fit into 140 characters, which I felt improved it vastly. When there were newspaper articles I posted them a day before she did. I followed every major company in town that I could find, hoping some of them would follow me. My sister did advertising for ten years and I kept asking her feedback. Then they let me go and I stopped using Twitter. It seemed that the rest of the Internet used clickbait to get you to load their page and their ads, but what I saw on Twitter was refreshingly concise and gave you the most important details, while linking the full article. Twitter still sends me updates, nonsense about moments and what people that I do not know shared. It is weird when they tell me that some news outlet's tweet made the news. |
It's weird when I get notifications on a thread that hasn't been updated in weeks. Perhaps someone posted a message and deleted it. As long as I'm here:
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