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I certainly did not expect a simple musing to evoke such an emotive response from multiple people. This in itself is probably worthy of study (and I hope someo
by Lerc 8y ago
I certainly did not expect a simple musing to evoke such an emotive response from multiple people.
This in itself is probably worthy of study (and I hope someone is already researching this area).
That people have different experiences is uncontroversial, but the depth of feeling that seems to come from a challenge to one's sense experience seems disproportionately severe.
Consider the Blue and Black/White and Gold dress and Laurel, Yanni. There were extremely heated arguments over these otherwise trivial curiosities.
- jplayer01 8y ago> the depth of feeling that seems to come from a challenge to one's sense experience seems disproportionately severe. Yes. Because the lack of empathy is appalling. Whether it's this topic or the dress color or whatever, there's a crazy amount of lack of empathy for other points of view and other ways of experiencing the world - thus, all the pointless arguments over something that is just down to equally valid ways the brain interprets the world. I never argued with anybody what the right color was, because that was never the point or the interesting part of the whole thing - the interesting idea was what part of the brain is responsible for the differences from person to person, and that people take for granted how they experience the world.