In the tech communities we call this “context switching”
Doorway effect
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#102This is also probably part of the reason why sleep specialists say you should set aside your bedroom for nothing but sleeping and sex. I think walking through a doorway loads the context of the new room into your brain, so you forget the stuff associated with the context of the room you just walked out of. If the context of your bedroom just has sleeping in it, you're less likely to have unwanted thought running around in your mind while you're trying to get to sleep.
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#103Synonymous:
Programming: Function call and state getting captured on a stack.
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#104This was one of the reasons people hated the Windows 8 start screen. You go to access something while keeping what's on screen in your mind but the entire thing is now replaced with a sea of icons and text on a blue background. Such a drastic change in view has close to the effect that a power outage does.
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#105My wife calls this "male refrigerator blindness". But we all have it. Paraphrasing a theory I read ... somewhere; it comes from when we were furtive subterranean critters, where entering and leaving burrows resulted in the invalidation of whatever threat just was, (example: birds outside, snakes underground) and that clearing the decks to more efficiently deal with different threats in the new context included dumpin…
I like that theory. I don't think we give evolution and our animal past enough credit for many of the psychological things we encounter in our lives.
That's actually what was most interesting to me about the ringworld series. Just an open conversation about how evolution has impacted action (however hokey it might be in the books, and ignoring the rishathra).
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#106How is the theory falsifiable? What if I pass between two rooms that look identical? Has this been studied? (It seems to me that the underlying claim of episodic memory might not be able to tell a difference.)
> How is the theory falsifiable? If they didn't observe it, that would provide some level of falsifiability? > What if I pass between two rooms that look identical? Has this been studied? (It seems to me that the underlying claim of episodic memory might not be able to tell a difference.) There's a study listed on that page which observed that re-entering the same room did not improve recall.
Observation alone doesn’t necessarily give falsifiability. This requires an interaction of clear terminology with physics. In short, I was prodding at their definition of “doorways”.
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#107Sorry to hijack this, but a related problem of mine is I can't picture myself going through a doorway. Like the brain just doesn't compute for some reason.
Sounds like aphantasia:
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mostly off-topic, but if you find this compelling, you will certainly enjoy reading the short story "There Is No Antimemetics Division" whose chapters are linked from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
It's a nice series of stories, although I feel like they do go a bit off the deep end in some of the later installments - but the premise is very fun.
and there goes my afternoon....
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#109 "Woking (WOH-king) n.
Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for."
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#110Have you ever walked into a room and found a vampire? No, not the sexy kind, but a foul creature with bony limbs and ashen skin? The kind that snarls as you enter, like a beast about to pounce? The kind that roots you to the spot with its sunken, hypnotic eyes, rendering you unable to flee as you watch the hideous thing uncoil from the shadows? Has your heart started racing though your legs refuse to? Have you felt t…
On topic of this specific kind of vampire, see also: Blindsight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)