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That breakthrough would not be possible without ubiquity of personal computing at home and in your pocket, though, which seems like the bigger change in the last two decades.

I wasn't even aware that it could do right click. The magic mouses I had seen didn't want to do that.

So the participants were culturally exposed to something called "year wheels" and "If the year is a circle (...)" was part of the question. Of course they ended up with circles!

"Life itsef", a "semi-monastic co-living hub" which is supposed to be "a place for experimentation, exploration, and learning, where people can engage in self-work, creative work, …

Not parent commenter, but I believe everything social should be kept to real life. The dynamics of online social media have almost nothing to do with real human interactions. It is…

I am stumped: how does visualizing a scene in your minds eye and describing it lead to seeing it on the back of your eyelids as the article linked in the title of this comment sect…

The sense of knowing where a character is in a space in fiction is the same sense that is used to visualize anything else. It is the same phenomenon. If you can "know" where a fict…

As someone who has used a larger number of psychedelics, MDMA, ayahuasca and so on - yes, alcohol at 16 for a few years was absolutely life changing for many of the same reasons: i…

I agree, culture has been colonised and turned into capital. It is bleak. I often miss the times before everything was connected.

As someone who has practiced qigong and neigong over many years, feelings are absolutely localized - you can even match them with specific organs. Is is surprising that the adrenal…

Not an answer to your question but a comment toward the quote: In Traditional Chinese Medicine terms, the spleen has always been described as the cause of chronic inflammatory dise…

I took a lot and identify with a lot. But I was wondering how much of this is the effect of the internet on cognition? Specifically in the "ADHD bingo", there are things like "havi…

That is sadly common perception (IMHE). Just look at the use of the "cave man" as an illustration of dumbness.

I do not get the ego angle, but I am also skeptic of aphantasia. My own experience could be described by either 1 ("no image") or 5 ("perfectly vivid") in any questionaire concerni…

Do you actually hear the music in the fan noise or do you hear/imagine it in your mind? The first one is to consider carefully as it happens on LSD and in psychosis - maybe also st…

Is your comment the reverse of the great philosophical statement "If you're so clever why aren't you rich?".

You are experiencing exactly the phenomenon the previous poster was describing. Because you did not have the experiences that produced theses cliched phrases, they seem mundane and…

Is a little bit of umami taste really a significant part of your quality of life? When other parts go or die (health, friends, meaning), one can easily realize how little that actu…

All three of these are horrible, and running Stable Diffusion locally produces incredibly better results as seen in this comment section.

Federated sites like lemmy and mastodon.

The human-mouse equivalent dose ratio/interspecies allometric scaling is a foundational topic in exploratory pharmacological studies. You can find information f.e. in "A simple pra…

Thank you dgerard, you are doing (acausal robot) god's work.

They are saying that there is no need to figure out how to recreate "the "glitch" of today that will be the nostalgic style of tomorrow" as the "old"/current models are all availab…

One almost paranormal ability some seasoned spiritual teachers have is pointing at things that are happening in your experience, i.e. something is described and that phenomenon is …