I never realized until today that The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a fable/metaphor about the loss of indexicality in brain science (explicitly so, although Sacks doesn’t use that word)
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Replying to @literalbanana
> loss of indexicality please explain in small words for the slow, like me, ty
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I’m still struggling with it myself https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1349747873018118144?s=21 …https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1349747873018118144 …
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Science Banana @literalbananaReplying to @woobnigguraththe property of pointing something out of a context, rather than being abstractly true-in-general - hard to explain in a tweet https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222019385834950656?s=21 … https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222019385834950656 …1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @literalbanana
> “Indexical” is a word almost perfectly calculated to sap the morale of the reader and annihilate interest. I have seriously considered replacing it with the word “pointing,” YES REPLACE
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Replying to @MorlockP @literalbanana
Almost perfectly calculated to ...
piss morlock off
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Replying to @MorlockP @literalbanana
D’awww how did you ever put up with moving in next door to me and living there all those years? This is giving me fa funny feeling... responsibility maybe? Eh whatever.
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I'm just admitting that I'm a terrible asshole! I keep trying to change, but ...
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Replying to @MorlockP @literalbanana
Me too, except for the trying to change part! Hey we need to talk about radio. Also I want advice on doing a business case analysis for an idea I have.
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