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Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival. When a possible threat is d

Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival. When a possible threat is detected, even when it's not clear what the threat is, it's time to feel very uncomfortable.

seph-reed 5y ago
Most of human comfort (which isn't pharmaceutically induced) comes from a sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, this is also where most people get their sense of "truthiness," but that's another story. Anyways, if you were raised in a machine with these images and then shown the real world, I wonder if it would be a relief or also uncanny? I know that when it comes to sound, it's really hard to create organic sounds. And that part of our ability to hear sounds happens (theoretically) before the brain, in the form of grouping harmonic series together into isolated sound sources. Perhaps eyes do something similar? Some sort of pre-processing that functionally works for all natural phenomena, kind of like the harmonic series does for sound.
phkahler 5y ago
>> Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival. I thought the latest thinking is that most of what we "see" is really a projection from our own mind (similar to how these images are generated) and our attention is drawn to those areas where our projection and sensory input don't match. So yes, we are evolved to be alerted when "something feels wrong" because it's unexpected and could be a danger. The mismatch can happen at any level of the hierarchy. One person here said some waves appeared to be moving the wrong way for the rest of a scene. Things like that are at a higher level of abstraction than rock textures or tree trunks with gaps. Some things might seem wrong but take more time to identify or explain what the problem is.

seph-reed 5y ago

Most of human comfort (which isn't pharmaceutically induced) comes from a sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, this is also where most people get their sense of "truthiness," but that's another story. Anyways, if you were raised in a machine with these images and then shown the real world, I wonder if it would be a relief or also uncanny? I know that when it comes to sound, it's really hard to create organic sounds. And that part of our ability to hear sounds happens (theoretically) before the brain, in the form of grouping harmonic series together into isolated sound sources. Perhaps eyes do something similar? Some sort of pre-processing that functionally works for all natural phenomena, kind of like the harmonic series does for sound.

phkahler 5y ago

>> Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival. I thought the latest thinking is that most of what we "see" is really a projection from our own mind (similar to how these images are generated) and our attention is drawn to those areas where our projection and sensory input don't match. So yes, we are evolved to be alerted when "something feels wrong" because it's unexpected and could be a danger. The mismatch can happen at any level of the hierarchy. One person here said some waves appeared to be moving the wrong way for the rest of a scene. Things like that are at a higher level of abstraction than rock textures or tree trunks with gaps. Some things might seem wrong but take more time to identify or explain what the problem is.