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A computer screen has clear info you can engage with, but the circuit boards shooting 1s & 0s everywhere have no info we can interact with; it makes no sense to say something like "oh, more 0s came out of this corner of the board, does this correspond to mom emailing me?" 1/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jan 24, 2022

I feel similarly about very deep psychedelic experiences or very young childhood; something is going on, that *does* end up corresponding to something meaningful, but it's occurring at such a different plane of meaning that squinting at it with computer-screen eyes is useless. 2/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jan 24, 2022

So I'm sus about things that try to connect current psychological states to your birth experience, or thinking you could do good communication with someone blazed on psychedelics. Seems full of projection to me, viewing through a lens you aren't aware you have. 3/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

If you look at circuit boards and try to figure out if more 0s in one corner corresponded to getting mom's email or not, I'd be like ur looking for information in the wrong place, in the wrong way; you might get a glimmer but you will miss *so much* of the way the system works!

9:43 PM · Jan 24, 2022

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Many (most?) circuit boards have 'Easter eggs' on them: School id/logo of school engineer doing design graduated from for instance; Most only another engineer would find, appreciate.

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You couldn't construct meaning, but that might reveal just as much. We've only ever been proven to be more-and-more a machine.

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systems thinking is sorely lacking in the world

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This is about the reality of abstractions. While all these levels or aspects of analysis exist and must ultimately be consistent with one another they are rarely all equally relevant - relevance depends on the problem being solved and is borne out by the explanations at hand.

𝔞𝔟𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔲𝔱𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔯

@losingcontrol23

Jan 24, 2022

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@Aella_Girl

this is a swell point, but it's worth noting that you literally can look at a circuit board or IC and derive a lot about what it's doing, and if you, say, can't trivially connect said IC to a screen, that's often the best you can do which slots into the metaphor nicely

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I’m looking at the ethernet activity indicator light and it says no activity; I didn’t get the email.

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You might be amused to learn that there are neuroscientists who have applied the analytical tools used in neuroscience to study signals from microprocessors to see if those approaches work in a setting where we know the right answers

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I don't think this analogy works tho. it's more like a pattern of high and low voltage signals that would take forever to parse. and you would *HAVE* to have complete and total understanding of the system and its storage to parse it

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A lot of people already know that Miss Aella_Girl . You can be interpreted as condescending from the way you said that btw. Just trying to bring some more “awareness” and a critique