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On top of one eye being nearsighted and the other being far sighted, the closest I would describe this is ocular and mental auto correc/complete powered by low horse power gpt.
After my mom's stroke she basically lost the concept of time. Apparently it's relatively common. Kids don't get the concept of time until an age, and you can lose it. Amazing how much you need it how things fall apart in this modern life without it. Didn't help that she decided to use a 2017 calendar in 2018, I questioned my sanity as I unraveled the mess. It very much impacted her life. About the only good thing was…
How does that work in practice? She can read a clock right? So would she just not remember to look at the clock to see the time? Genuinely curious.
To make people happy she'd just say "ok" when someone said a time.
And so many people just didn't understand these limitations, including the scheduling folks at the neurology department who would setup 3-5 meetings well in advanced and then move them constantly.
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I was imprisoned on false charges and tortured by the United States government. A precedent-setting appeal freed me, but not before I spent a long time in solitary confinement, much of that on a hunger strike. Solitary confinement causes brain damage so severe it is visible on a CT scan. The area that it damages is the hippocampus, which is key of in the perception of time and spatial memory. I can still perceive tim…
To put this comment into more context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev ( rabite has been open about his real name and identity on this platform)
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That would require "learning it" to have zero persistence in any form would it not? How might one know such a thing?
Not sure what you're asking. What is "that" which would require "'learning it' to have zero persistence in any form'"? What I meant is, even if we all learn that everybody in the world has "such disorders" and that "there are things none of us allow ourselves to perceive", what would the objective change be to make this "teriffying"? "There's a killer out to get you" or "you have X disease which will have those sympt…
>>> After learning it, it would still be the same exact world as was before we learned about it.
>> That would require "learning it" to have zero persistence in any form would it not? How might one know such a thing?
> Not sure what you're asking. What is "that" which would require "'learning it' to have zero persistence in any form'"?
"That" = "it would still be the same exact world (as was before we learned about it)".
World-State: 1
World-Event: at least one human becomes open to the possibility that we may all have such disorders on a species-wide level, that there may be things none of us allow ourselves to perceive. (And once an idea exists in one person's mind, they may act upon it at some point in the future.)
World-State: 2
Are the two states identical? I would think not.
> What I meant is, even if we all learn that everybody in the world has "such disorders" and that "there are things none of us allow ourselves to perceive", what would the objective change be to make this "teriffying"?
To me, it can be "terrifying" to see risk that others cannot or, or refuse to try to see.
Scientists and "scientific thinkers" often express fear of the quantity of "deniers" that don't agree with their risk assessments, and get even more terrified when the "deniers" refuse to listen to reason.
Similarly, people like me feel similarly when it is the scientists who behave the same.
> "There are things that you don't know, and that you as a species can't even perceive" is at best amusing.
This is a consequence of the epistemic norms (lazy, colloquial, bad, etc) of the culture you grew up in: under strict epistemology (philosophical epistemology vs scientific epistemology), risk exists regardless of your personal opinion on it.
Of course, this "is" "pedantic", so no expectation for you to take it seriously...though if my memory serves you are usually the one going against the grain here on HN, so perhaps there's a chance. :)
On very high doses of DXM it felt like I was in hell for eternity. It sucked, would not recommend.
I remember reading stories about people who took a substance (can't remember which) and lived entire imaginary lives in a fantasy world in real-time: that is for years, they go to school, have kids, go to work, etc., until they wake up and it would have been only 15 minutes in actual life.
It's produced in several plants including Mimosa Hostilis and Acacia Confusa, and can be extracted into a tea called Ayahuasca, or into pure DMT crystals which can be smoked in a process similar to smoking meth.
People claim to have human experiences like you describe, but I've only ever gotten the type of DMT trip that completely unravels the human meaning of things.
These experiences really make me wonder how much of time is fundamental in the universe and how much of it is just a subjective experience created by the brain.
Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?
Smaller animals seem to have much faster muscle twitch and reaction time. It's very likely that they perceive the finer motor control much faster than humans. But if a fly can dodge raindrops, what must it be thinking when it's sitting on a windowsill for like an hour? Is that like 3 days for it? I don't recommend it, but people have experienced serious time dilation while doing shrooms: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g…
If you're having a good trip it's a divine gift, you get to trip for like 20 hours in under 3 or 4 hours. But if you're having a bad trip it's the 17th layer of hell and you have to keep going back to the beginning every time you think about time.
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What do you think makes you remember “oh, now I have to look at the clock?
The fact that I wear one on my wrist and glance at it by chance without having to remember. The fact that there’s a clock on every appliance in my house and I look at those without intention to do so. Maybe all of that is subconscious action based on my perception of time. I’m not sure.
Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?
Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?
Smaller animals seem to have much faster muscle twitch and reaction time. It's very likely that they perceive the finer motor control much faster than humans. But if a fly can dodge raindrops, what must it be thinking when it's sitting on a windowsill for like an hour? Is that like 3 days for it? I don't recommend it, but people have experienced serious time dilation while doing shrooms: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g…
some small animals have a refresh rate that is different from us, and if you stimulate their vision faster than that, they don't perceive it