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SSC has an interesting post about this and similar things: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realiz

by lkbm 5y ago

SSC has an interesting post about this and similar things: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realizing-it/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-e... If you lacked some common internal mental experience, would you know? This guy didn't. In the SSC piece, there's someone who didn't realize he lacked a sense of smell until high school. I also came across recent tweets about "hey, some people have some not-under-their-control voice in their head, how bizarre" and others were like "that's a conscious". It never occurred to me that the idea of a third-party voice as your conscious was a real thing in "normal" minds, not a metaphor for their sense of right and wrong. Make me wonder about how sometimes media will portray an angel and devil on your shoulders urging you to do right or wrong. (No one hallucinates those, do they? I've always just assumed it's a metaphor, but so did the "no sense of smell" guy!)

nonameiguess 5y ago
I didn't realize I was lactose intolerant until adulthood. I honestly never knew having to violently crap within minutes of eating most meals was abnormal since I'd been doing it my entire life and not really paying attention to whether anyone else was.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Me either! Took me until I was 30-something to suddenly figure it out. Bought lactose-free milk and .. poop good. WTF. ALL I ATE AS A CHILD WAS MILKSHAKES AND I HAD CONSTANT DIARRHEA. Also did not notice I had very serious ADHD until I was 35, reading an article in the New York Times.
pxc 5y ago
> I also came across recent tweets about "hey, some people have some not-under-their-control voice in their head, how bizarre" and others were like "that's a conscious". It never occurred to me that the idea of a third-party voice as your conscious was a real thing in "normal" minds, not a metaphor for their sense of right and wrong. Can you find that tweet?
- lkbm 5y ago
  Original tweet/thread: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1467359243431215106 https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1467359243431215106 It was QT'd by someone where I then saw a few replies suggesting this is a conscience (not "conscious", as I wrote earlier, oops): https://twitter.com/Scruffff/status/1467979777038438402 https://twitter.com/Scruffff/status/1467979777038438402
  - pxc 5y ago
    Thank you!

by lkbm 5y ago

nonameiguess 5y ago

I didn't realize I was lactose intolerant until adulthood. I honestly never knew having to violently crap within minutes of eating most meals was abnormal since I'd been doing it my entire life and not really paying attention to whether anyone else was.

kingcharles 5y ago
Me either! Took me until I was 30-something to suddenly figure it out. Bought lactose-free milk and .. poop good. WTF. ALL I ATE AS A CHILD WAS MILKSHAKES AND I HAD CONSTANT DIARRHEA. Also did not notice I had very serious ADHD until I was 35, reading an article in the New York Times.

pxc 5y ago

> I also came across recent tweets about "hey, some people have some not-under-their-control voice in their head, how bizarre" and others were like "that's a conscious". It never occurred to me that the idea of a third-party voice as your conscious was a real thing in "normal" minds, not a metaphor for their sense of right and wrong. Can you find that tweet?

lkbm 5y ago
Original tweet/thread: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1467359243431215106 https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1467359243431215106 It was QT'd by someone where I then saw a few replies suggesting this is a conscience (not "conscious", as I wrote earlier, oops): https://twitter.com/Scruffff/status/1467979777038438402 https://twitter.com/Scruffff/status/1467979777038438402
- pxc 5y ago
  Thank you!