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by vekker 6y ago
> One study found that the mere visual perception of diseased-looking people stimulated white blood cells to respond more aggressively to infection (as indicated by the production of the proinflammatory cytokine Interleukin 6 in response
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by vekker 6y ago
Yep, imagining/visualizing something goes without an actual visual experience for me. I've always assumed the same thing applies to most people, but I guess I do have some degree of aphantasia. I can imagine something, but it&#x27
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Ask HN: Solutions for wearable proximity sensors (for social distancing)?
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by vekker 6y ago
That's an excellent analogy! The mental space is exactly like a prerendering buffer. When asleep and dreaming, there is no overriding visual input, so the stuff in the mental space gets rendered. And I guess some people can access this
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by vekker 6y ago
Huh, why? If you have the same private key on your devices, you can do E2E encryption on the same conversation on multiple devices, no?
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by vekker 6y ago
That's blowing my mind right now. First I thought people who can visualize to the point of actually seeing what they visualize were pretty rare. For me what I visualize takes place in a mental space: it's a clear mental image, not
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by vekker 6y ago
That's kind of what I've been trying to figure out: when people say they count sheep, do they close their eyes and literally see sheep jumping over a fence as if watching a movie or wearing a VR headset? Even in low resolution...
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by vekker 6y ago
Yes but that was my point: I suspect (I can't be sure of course) that this is a limit of the English language. We call it "seeing", but it's not. If it would be real seeing, you would visually see the thing you are visua
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by vekker 6y ago
Perhaps... what I mean is this: close your eyes and visualize a tree. Do you literally see the tree in the darkness of your closed eyelids in front of you, visually? Even just vaguely? If not, then imho that's not really visual. I &quo
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by vekker 7y ago
I worked on an ingredient parser a few years ago. This exact kind of thing made things a lot more difficult than they seemed at first.
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by vekker 7y ago
> For context, I am completely unable to “see” anything in my mind. I do not dream either. If I close my eyes and think of something, nothing happens visually Correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect a lot of self-diagnosed cases of ap
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by vekker 7y ago
That's not too bad... here in Belgium we currently have half of the working population on unemployment benefits.
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by vekker 7y ago
That idea assumes consciousness as emergent or made out of the energy and matter we perceive. While the content of our experiences obviously is, I'm not so sure about consciousness "itself". I personally feel it's self-e
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by vekker 7y ago
> And rightly so because it usually does. Does it? I don't agree, I think this is a matter of what you're adapted to. I think it also depends on what you view as "healthy". I don't see the processed foods adverti
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by vekker 7y ago
“If you need to be right before you move, you never win. Perfect is the enemy of what is right when it comes to emergency management. Speed trumps perfection.” - WHO Executive Director Dr. Michael Ryan https://twitter.com/JI
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by vekker 7y ago
It's our collective karma playing out, so to speak... I eat meat occasionally, but I still think meat should become a luxury food by imposing very high taxes.
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by vekker 7y ago
I agree with you. People have been hating so much on hoarders, while not acknowledging that the real problem is that people are way too reliant on a just-in-time supply chain. It's really not that difficult, expensive, or space-consumi
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by vekker 7y ago
Now it just takes a 2nd picture of yourself to prove them wrong, so I wouldn't worry about that (yet?).
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by vekker 7y ago
Well, ideally you'd give them a choice between following an intensive meditation training (for instance, I don't think it can be only thing that's needed for rehabilitation) and just classic imprisonment. If you force it on t
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by vekker 7y ago
> this approach has not been very successful. Obviously, because they indeed torture them by making the conditions so horrible, as described in the article. Nor do they provide guidance in how to actually cope with isolation and put this
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by vekker 7y ago
Living in Germany, I don't have the impression at all that the country is doing much compared to Italy.
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by vekker 7y ago
Sounds like hell, the way he describes it. However, if you'd take those hellish elements away & ensure silence, I think long solitary confinement might work if you teach people how to meditate. That's just not being done enoug
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by vekker 7y ago
The much more magical part to me is how firing these patterns of electrical activity gives rise to an experience of remembering... Also, how exactly do they know the neuronal firing patterns happen before remembering? If you have to signa
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by vekker 7y ago
You can achieve this clarity in a lucid dream... how accurate the memories relived would be, is another matter
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by vekker 7y ago
Learn to dream again. Nightly dreaming that is, not the wishing-kind. Specifically, lucid dreaming, i.e. being conscious and awake while physically asleep in the REM state.
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by vekker 7y ago
What does the author mean with "hearing his voice" though? People can have different interpretations of what it means to "hear". In what sense can it be compared with hearing actual sounds? Does it have the same quality.
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by vekker 7y ago
If I read it well, this grant is personal income though. If the company has to pay 2-5k in monthly taxes, that will be on its revenue. If you have no revenue yet, then I don't imagine you will have to pay that much in taxes
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by vekker 7y ago
35% of all websites run Wordpress. A lot of those sites run pre-made templates which often heavily use jQuery scripts to show pop-ups, sliders, tooltips, what have you... Accessing the width/height of an element is pretty standard in t
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by vekker 7y ago
Is it? It seems to me getting the size of an element is a pretty basic operation that a lot of scripts use.
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by vekker 7y ago
I had an accident last week and find the Wim Hof breathing tremendously helpful with managing the pain and inflammation. I highly recommend learning this technique. It's free, you can find plenty of YouTube videos. A "proper sessi

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