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Can filming one second of every day change your life? [video]
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#42> Everyone will probably have a different experience with their videos, he says, but he says self-reflection is never a bad thing. People's infinite capacity to forget things is both a blessing and a curse. Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas…
Love how Lovecraft's writing is weirdly relevant to today's interconnected world. If he was born today he would probably be working on pattern recognition and machine learning to "piece together the dissociated knowledge to open up terrifying vistas of reality".
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#43This reminds me of an Android app I wrote a while back. It's called PhotoChron (free! - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photochron...) and lets you take a photo a day to join into a video.
I've used it mostly for recording my kids growing up (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Nr7pw-I0g ). It's amazing having a chronicle of them imperceptibly turning from newborns into kids and I recommend it for any new parent. Apps like Everyday ( http://everyday-app.com ) do a similar thing on iOS.
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#44I recall a Nova or something on PBS several years ago where an MIT student had built a contraption that did essentially that. The thing that struck him when analyzing the data was how much every day was more or less exactly like the other. He wasn't particularly philosophical about this fact, but I remember thinking this could be very depressing to some people - and jostle others into doing more with their lives. Sti…
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
Your brain doesn't have a cinematic memory of every moment. It's very malleable and memories will probably degrade more as you rely on this kind of thing more. Net effect may well be worthwhile, but it's definitely a downside to consider.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
Your brain doesn't have a cinematic memory of every moment. It's very malleable and memories will probably degrade more as you rely on this kind of thing more. Net effect may well be worthwhile, but it's definitely a downside to consider.
It's not clear how memories degrade as you rely on videos more, but it is an interesting hypothesis.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas…
Love how Lovecraft's writing is weirdly relevant to today's interconnected world. If he was born today he would probably be working on pattern recognition and machine learning to "piece together the dissociated knowledge to open up terrifying vistas of reality".
Or writing angry posts on StormFront.
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#47That would be an awesome app! BUT, I think 1 second is WAY too short. It's actually annoying to watch such a video, and you don't really get something out of it. I think 5 seconds is already a better number.
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#48I recall a Nova or something on PBS several years ago where an MIT student had built a contraption that did essentially that. The thing that struck him when analyzing the data was how much every day was more or less exactly like the other. He wasn't particularly philosophical about this fact, but I remember thinking this could be very depressing to some people - and jostle others into doing more with their lives. Sti…
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
> Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video
I don't have a citation now, but there were studies done that suggest you actually don't have reliable memories of past events; the brain actually recomputes parts of them based on what you know now, thus sometimes making false memories.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
> Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video I don't have a citation now, but there were studies done that suggest you actually don't have reliable memories of past events; the brain actually recomputes parts of them based on what you know now, thus sometimes making false memories.
Many studies referenced here for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
Your brain doesn't have a cinematic memory of every moment. It's very malleable and memories will probably degrade more as you rely on this kind of thing more. Net effect may well be worthwhile, but it's definitely a downside to consider.
I agree with mmahemoff, your mind will be weaker to the extend you don't use it. Just like math -- if you start using a calculator, then when you don't have one, it'll take longer and harder to do it in your head.
Every moment of your life is recorded in your mind with full perceptions and a time tag and is /potentially/ accessible.
Dianetics posits it's pain and unconsciousness that obscures memories, and if you contact and discharge them, memories return (http://www.dianetics.org).
Personally, I found this to be true. It's very interesting (and pleasurable) to recover a "forgotten" experience in a Dianetics session, which you can do by twinning up with another person that's read Dianetics, or by getting a free intro session at a local Scientology organization.
http://www.amazon.com/Dianetics-Modern-Science-Mental-Englis...