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#showerthoughts: Isn't everything our senses can use as input technically noise with a probability factor attached to it as far as our brains are concerned, tho
by blipmusic 10y ago
#showerthoughts: Isn't everything our senses can use as input technically noise with a probability factor attached to it as far as our brains are concerned, though? As to whether there is 1) intent behind/within the noise, making it a signal, and whether 2) we can identify, parse and interpret the meaning of said signal. Isn't even the most explicit message even in our first language/s (be it auditorial, visual, a smell, touch... taste?) noise until our brain decides it is not?
I'm just not that surprised to hear that the brain is constantly trying to interpret the inputs it gets, what else is there? Is it then that some simply have a lower threshold as to what their brains determine to be signal?
(I really don't know these things, I'm just curious)
- fallous 10y agoYes, from a sheer mechanical perspective, but there's a reason the brain is predisposed to detect certain forms of signals within the noise of our sensory inputs. If you're wired to be more inclined to detect things like movements-as-threat then if you're in a high threat environment it is actually beneficial. Unfortunately that same wiring in a low threat environment presents as paranoia and will probably be detrimental to survival. Now there is a difference between "detect movement," which the brain is wired to do no matter what and the next step of correlating it to "threat!", which could be the result of either biological, environmental, or both.