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This is going to be used by woo woo types for years. Did you know that our brains operate in 11 dimensions? Or, how can we get our brains to operate in all the

This is going to be used by woo woo types for years. Did you know that our brains operate in 11 dimensions? Or, how can we get our brains to operate in all the dimensions it's capable of? Or, brains operate in 11 dimensions...and the soul makes up the other seven. Seven? That's a spiritual number. Etc... That guy who looks like David Spade with a brain tumor on Ancient Aliens will be all over this. The article is super interesting. I'm just enjoying imagining how someone will tie this to the great pyramid of Giza.

ravenstine 7y ago
It will be the next "neuroplasticity".
- whymauri 7y ago
  But neuroplasticity is actually a thing.
  - inimino 7y ago
    But so is this (presumably).
  - ravenstine 7y ago
    You're right, it is, but there's a lot of woo surrounding it and a lot of videos floating around with wild eyed people exaggerating the power of neuroplasticity.
dumbfoundded 7y ago
lol, M-theory has 11 dimensions
- friendcrunch 7y ago
  Come on, it's more like the old Audi 5 ad, spoken with a Germanic accent, 4 cylinders is not enuf and 6 cylinders is too many… FIVE cylinders!
stallmanite 7y ago
I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.
- ben_w 7y ago
  I was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing. One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old. I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the-merely-real https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the... Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.
- tux1968 7y ago
  It's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.

ravenstine 7y ago

It will be the next "neuroplasticity".

whymauri 7y ago
But neuroplasticity is actually a thing.
- inimino 7y ago
  But so is this (presumably).
- ravenstine 7y ago
  You're right, it is, but there's a lot of woo surrounding it and a lot of videos floating around with wild eyed people exaggerating the power of neuroplasticity.

dumbfoundded 7y ago

lol, M-theory has 11 dimensions

friendcrunch 7y ago
Come on, it's more like the old Audi 5 ad, spoken with a Germanic accent, 4 cylinders is not enuf and 6 cylinders is too many… FIVE cylinders!

stallmanite 7y ago

I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.

ben_w 7y ago
I was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing. One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old. I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the-merely-real https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the... Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.
tux1968 7y ago
It's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.