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Heh not sure if you're aware, but our brain seems to have a special treatment or logic for contextualizing "high technology", as indicated by one well-documente
by patcon 3y ago
Heh not sure if you're aware, but our brain seems to have a special treatment or logic for contextualizing "high technology", as indicated by one well-documented failure modes: the "influencing machine" is a feature of schizophrenia which features a delusion that contemporary high technology (magnets, pneumatics, gears, mind-control drugs, satellites, prob AI now, etc) is being used by mysterious attackers to control the sufferers body and mind:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_the_%22Influencing_Machine%22_in_Schizophrenia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_the_%22Infl...
Though not mentioned in the post, schizophrenia (oddly enough) is also tied to cerebellar dysfunction: https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/jnp.12.2.193#_i7 https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/jnp.12.2.193#...
- meindnoch 3y agoBut air looms are real: https://www.theairloom.org/ https://www.theairloom.org/