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Can you explain how that works out? Like, do you have virtual checklists and for everything you experience over the day your head goes "check check check -> we

by erikb 8y ago

Can you explain how that works out? Like, do you have virtual checklists and for everything you experience over the day your head goes "check check check -> we must be in event X"? It's really hard to imagine. What I already know is emotional pattern matching. E.g. one smells a spice that one's mother used as a child and one is immediately transferred back to that time. In that way if one recognizes that high excitement is often related to advertisements or scams one might recognize when one feels that way that something might be fishy. Or what I also know is path recognition. E.g. "at first we did this, then we did this, then we did this, and therefore we arrived at X". In that way we can remember processes like riding a bike or our way home. That's also how memory palaces work.

nineteen999 8y ago
Experience helps a lot. For example, I will never give money to a Buddhist monk walking the streets asking for donations, er, ever again. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/victorians-warned-against-donating-to-shameless-fake-charities/6008622 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/victorians-warned-aga... "Genuine monks do have a practice of having gifts or giving alms as part of their religion but it is meant to be a generous donation of those who wish to give without any solicitation whatsoever." In a similar way, I'd never work for another startup again. While I'm sure many startups have great intentions, others are out and out scams, and the vast majority will never break even enough to pay you the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that they promised you. Once burned, twice shy etc.
- mikekchar 8y ago
  I was once waiting to board an airplane and a Buddhist monk sat beside me. I had a glance at him and notice a rolex watch. "That's odd", I thought. But sometimes Buddhist monks have stuff like that. And then I noticed that he hadn't shaved his head. Or his beard. "That's odd", I thought. But different orders do different things. And then he got called up to the desk and the attendant asked him, "I'm sorry sir, but I noticed that you didn't have a the vegetarian meal ordered. Would you like me to order one for you?". He said, "No thank you." "That's odd", I thought, but even monks have free choice in their meals. And then some guards with sniffer dogs walked up to him and took him away. "Oh. Not so odd after all".
  - erikb 8y ago
    Well, well. You still have a lot to learn, my Padawan. The better answer is not "that's odd" but "we'll see". ;-) http://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-see-zen-story.html http://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-see-zen...
bryanrasmussen 8y ago
I believe it is more like path or pattern recognition, I have read about X + Y + Z, I experience something that has X + Y + Z, I think that reminds me of something what is it? My past reading flashes for me and then I start to draw conclusions about what I am experiencing. As a general rule I don't seem to require it to have been an example based communication, or a personal communication on the subject, but just an abstract description can be enough for me to say - hey this situation seems like a subclass of the general class described in that book of scams I read. Maybe I should think about that! That's all I took exception to, that abstract descriptions of things would not be helpful without concrete examples because people don't find abstract descriptions helpful enough. I tend to find them helpful. that said I have never experienced this smell a spice or eat a food thing and immediately remember that time years ago. To me that seems like bs, but I guess it must happen so many people talk about it.

by erikb 8y ago

nineteen999 8y ago

Experience helps a lot. For example, I will never give money to a Buddhist monk walking the streets asking for donations, er, ever again. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/victorians-warned-against-donating-to-shameless-fake-charities/6008622 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/victorians-warned-aga... "Genuine monks do have a practice of having gifts or giving alms as part of their religion but it is meant to be a generous donation of those who wish to give without any solicitation whatsoever." In a similar way, I'd never work for another startup again. While I'm sure many startups have great intentions, others are out and out scams, and the vast majority will never break even enough to pay you the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that they promised you. Once burned, twice shy etc.

mikekchar 8y ago
I was once waiting to board an airplane and a Buddhist monk sat beside me. I had a glance at him and notice a rolex watch. "That's odd", I thought. But sometimes Buddhist monks have stuff like that. And then I noticed that he hadn't shaved his head. Or his beard. "That's odd", I thought. But different orders do different things. And then he got called up to the desk and the attendant asked him, "I'm sorry sir, but I noticed that you didn't have a the vegetarian meal ordered. Would you like me to order one for you?". He said, "No thank you." "That's odd", I thought, but even monks have free choice in their meals. And then some guards with sniffer dogs walked up to him and took him away. "Oh. Not so odd after all".
- erikb 8y ago
  Well, well. You still have a lot to learn, my Padawan. The better answer is not "that's odd" but "we'll see". ;-) http://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-see-zen-story.html http://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-see-zen...

bryanrasmussen 8y ago

I believe it is more like path or pattern recognition, I have read about X + Y + Z, I experience something that has X + Y + Z, I think that reminds me of something what is it? My past reading flashes for me and then I start to draw conclusions about what I am experiencing. As a general rule I don't seem to require it to have been an example based communication, or a personal communication on the subject, but just an abstract description can be enough for me to say - hey this situation seems like a subclass of the general class described in that book of scams I read. Maybe I should think about that! That's all I took exception to, that abstract descriptions of things would not be helpful without concrete examples because people don't find abstract descriptions helpful enough. I tend to find them helpful. that said I have never experienced this smell a spice or eat a food thing and immediately remember that time years ago. To me that seems like bs, but I guess it must happen so many people talk about it.