Men who stare at walls
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Men who stare at walls
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#2Sounds like someone reinvented mindfulness
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#3> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year
The paper linked to justify this just talks about media that people consume which is growing. But that has nothing to do with the point this post is trying to make?
Your eyes "stream 4k video" anytime your eyelids are open regardless if you're watching a movie or looking at a wall? Why would me watching more videos say anything about how much information my brain processes?
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#4Sounds like someone reinvented mindfulness
They made instructions for mindfulness direct and unambiguous which is great.
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#5No thank you, my time on Earth is limited.
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#6> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year The paper linked to justify this just talks about media that people consume which is growing. But that has nothing to do with the point this post is trying to make? Your eyes "stream 4k video" anytime your eyelids are open regardless if you'r…
I’d venture that there’s less to process staring at a wall. Unless you’ve got exciting walls in your parts.
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#7> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year The paper linked to justify this just talks about media that people consume which is growing. But that has nothing to do with the point this post is trying to make? Your eyes "stream 4k video" anytime your eyelids are open regardless if you'r…
I don't think "Sitting in an office you sit in every day" or "Sitting in your living room" are the same amount of bandwidth/storage as "Travelling around the moon". I'm sure we have compression algorithms for this stuff and it's somewhat related to novelty.
I'm aware of an association between perception of time to number of photons received in the eyes.
These relate to both how much time the events appear to take subjectively as well as how well remembered they are or how long they feel retrospectively. As in there is an actual physiological explanation for "time flies when you're having fun".
There probably is something to also be said for attention too. Increased awareness and attention will undoubtedly use up more 'bandwidth' or 'storage' too.
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#8> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year The paper linked to justify this just talks about media that people consume which is growing. But that has nothing to do with the point this post is trying to make? Your eyes "stream 4k video" anytime your eyelids are open regardless if you'r…
Obviously the blank wall compresses better
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#9> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year The paper linked to justify this just talks about media that people consume which is growing. But that has nothing to do with the point this post is trying to make? Your eyes "stream 4k video" anytime your eyelids are open regardless if you'r…
I understand your point, but a slightly more positive reading might be that the quantity of information consumed, while perhaps unable to be precisely quantified, can be related to the type of content being perceived.
Staring at wall produces little information in and of itself, perhaps through reflection, but staring at a TV produces a load of information, most of which is useless like names of characters, their favorite dresses, what food is being eaten where, etc. You can learn a lot by just passively observing even "dumb" TV especially if it contains foreign content or skills like cooking or sports. Again, not saying all of it is relevant to your life, but that's a different issue.
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#10Is this not a form of meditation? I've never been able to keep a meditation habit, but my understanding is that meditation techniques often feature closing your eyes and focusing on breathing, body parts or some other irrelevant thing, it sounds like staring at a wall would serve the same purpose.