#2 by crank » May 23, 2016 7:11 pm
This won't settle the issue, I doubt anything will. My take is it makes no difference.
Regarding the paper, I can describe something that to me is extremely interesting that should be relevant to what this paper says. About 10 years ago, I was doing a lot of crosswords, the NYTimes type, not the Brit ones. Sat on a chair with window in front of me, feet up on stool, I'd be sitting up looking at puzzles, trying to figure a word out, and when I did. I'd bend down a bit to write it in. One time I caught myself bending down and starting to write and I noticed I didn't know what the word I was going to write until I'd started to write it. At least I thought I had, it seemed kinda ridiculous, asked myself over and over if that happened. Wasn't sure. Then it happened again, and I was much more sure that is what happeened. And when the 3rd time popped up, I was sure. It wasn't often I noticed, but it was happening. I had time to bend down and start to write before I actually consciously knew the word.
Much later, I noticed something else, many occurrences of something similar to me seeing an object I couldn't identify, just some little thing like an eraser, or some gadget, cat toy, anything, and due to lighting, or it's position or angle I'm seeing it, whatever, I can't identify it, so I move closer to see what it is. As soon as it 'pops' and my brain realizes what it is, I think oh shit, that's all that is, but what I noticed is that I have already stopped moving forward and turned back to go wherever I was going before I actually knew what it was that I had identified.
Is this something any of you notice? Is it a common thing and I've just never heard anyone else mention it?
“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”
-George Carlin, who died 2008. Ha, now we have human centipedes running the place