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Something I find interesting about visualizing things in my mind's eye: I can't get a grasp on where, exactly, I'm seeing them. I'm not seeing them in front of
by robobro 3y ago
Something I find interesting about visualizing things in my mind's eye: I can't get a grasp on where, exactly, I'm seeing them. I'm not seeing them in front of me, to my left or right, above or below, behind me, inside me... they just seem to exist off somewhere completely different.
When I imagine a scenario like the one the paper talks about, the person coming into the room and knocking a ball off a table, I feel like I can see it happening from all angles all at once; if I try to repeat the scene in my mind, my perspective keeps jumping around. I can force myself to watch it from a single angle but it's trippy being able to watch something from multiple angles.
I don't generally visualize colors, but for some reason it's easy for me to imagine textures. Maybe this is in line with how early empiricist philosophers described vision as being a combination of sight and touch?
- mistermann 3y ago> Something I find interesting about visualizing things in my mind's eye: I can't get a grasp on where, exactly, I'm seeing them. I'm not seeing them in front of me, to my left or right, above or below, behind me, inside me... they just seem to exist off somewhere completely different. Now consider what's going on under the covers when each individual contemplates "the (simulation of the) events of January 6" or various other culture war issues, without having any knowledge of the magic that's going on under the covers, a state of mind for which there seems to be no way out of, for most (including "standard" intellectuals). To me, this is highly similar to cultural beliefs before and after the first enlightenment and rise of science, hopefully the second one gets here before we destroy ourselves with our delusions of understanding due to insufficient fundamentalist cognitive ideologies.