CPUs have this as well, for increased performance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor
Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next
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#12I’ve noticed during meditation on external sounds that for any repetitive sound, my brain immediately starts reproducing the sound internally, and then stops paying attention to that external sound and starts scanning the background for other sounds. This is the case for anything from air conditioner whine to birdsong. The meditation then becomes to interrupt the cached reproduction and really listen to every sound, including repetitive ones, forcing my brain to expect surprising variations in the same sounds if I can listen really closely.
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#13Although they just discovered the mechanism, we've known that this happens for quite some time. It's something you can take advantage of in UX design, for example, because if you provide a subtle queue before something new happens to trigger the brain, the new thing will be perceived faster.
The word you meant to use is cue.
Cue: a thing said or done that serves as a signal
Queue: a line or sequence of people waiting
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#14Yeap, this is why sometimes when i read some text, press press Space to scroll the page my brain has already started "reading" from the top of the page and then gets confused when the page has hijacked space and it didn't really scroll, the words do not make sense as they're not a continuation of what i was reading so i take a second to reorient my eyes around the page to realize what is wrong.
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#15Although they just discovered the mechanism, we've known that this happens for quite some time. It's something you can take advantage of in UX design, for example, because if you provide a subtle queue before something new happens to trigger the brain, the new thing will be perceived faster.
The word you meant to use is cue. Cue: a thing said or done that serves as a signal Queue: a line or sequence of people waiting
Good UX design. I was expecting "cue" and when I got "people in a line" or "a data structure" it felt like drinking ginger ale expecting apple juice.
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#16I’ve noticed during meditation on external sounds that for any repetitive sound, my brain immediately starts reproducing the sound internally, and then stops paying attention to that external sound and starts scanning the background for other sounds. This is the case for anything from air conditioner whine to birdsong. The meditation then becomes to interrupt the cached reproduction and really listen to every sound,…
My wife always play guitar and even after she stops I hear the song she was playing for the rest of the day. It’s very unnerving. What other parts of reality am I just filling in?
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#17Like Meltdown and Spectre for your brain... hard to exploit, but not impossible.
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#18CTRL-F "predictive coding", nothing found, what the hell, Fontanini et al?
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#19I’ve noticed during meditation on external sounds that for any repetitive sound, my brain immediately starts reproducing the sound internally, and then stops paying attention to that external sound and starts scanning the background for other sounds. This is the case for anything from air conditioner whine to birdsong. The meditation then becomes to interrupt the cached reproduction and really listen to every sound,…
My wife always play guitar and even after she stops I hear the song she was playing for the rest of the day. It’s very unnerving. What other parts of reality am I just filling in?
More than you know. But that's a good thing.
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#20> Imagine picking up a glass of what you think is apple juice, only to take a sip and discover that it’s actually ginger ale. Even though you usually love the soda, this time it tastes terrible Even brains aren’t safe from speculative execution vulnerabilities
This happened to me drinking soda water, I thought it was just regular old tap water, went to take a huge sip and immediately spit it out in disgust.
I normally hate soda water, but that time I especially hated it.