The oddest thing about my personal sense of time is that while I have no concept of what day its, or how old I am. I can memorize a rough sense of when an historical event happened in the past; I was really good at history class. What mental facility was I using to do that?
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Something odd struck me while learning about Feynman. He seemed to 'forget' his wife was dead, and used the tradition he had of writing her letters as a way to 'remember'. This concept is burned into my mind.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/816570332878405632 …
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I think part of Feynman's particular genius was his awareness of how his own mind works compared to others. Perhaps a result of his curiosity directing his thinking inward. He found that people read differently. (and can perhaps respec?)https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/982874149042507776 …
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🐜 🐻 @ultimapeReplying to @ultimape @vgrFound a vid by Feynman where he breaks down that assumption and describes the process of subvocalization thru language/music vs visual-spatial processing. It seems I don't think of code w/ language, but visual-spatially. Might be why I can multitask that. https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/982584312339009537 …1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
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I suspect perhaps we have different circuits in the brain for some of this. Encode time differently than space. Perhaps in same way that some can be directional impaired (left-right vs compass), or have trouble with faces. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sense-of-direction-innate/ …https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1045391857994346498 …
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Assuming everyone is same, or uses the same strategies to encode various quale I think is a larger failures of most of western thought. Feynman was undoing that as side-effect of aggressive doubt in experts & interacting dominate psych models at the time.
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I don't think those dominate models have gone away. For the most part, differences in thinking and meaning making are always framed as disabilities.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/790059157466611712 …
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It is too expensive to run a factory production line (school) when all the raw materials (children) you're building with are different.
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I wonder what Feynman would say about the bouba/kiki effect. "Individuals without autism agree with the standard result 88% of the time, while individuals with autism agree only 56% of the time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect …https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1039886283840086016 …
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When you wonder why I disagree with Chomsky and Pinker on language? It's literally because I'm autistic and as such have a fundamentally different experience of something they often cite on language & meaning making. https://books.google.com/books?id=4N1JDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT36&ots=tYjdn_iiBg&dq=%22cuppiness%22%20socrates&pg=PT36#v=onepage&q=%22cuppiness%22&f=false …pic.twitter.com/rkcDJnk2Fa
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Why? Less than 2.5% of kids have autism in ways that affects their verbal performance.
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I don't think it's a verbal performance thing, I think its a socially mediated phenomena acting on similar pathways as disgust response and low receptivity to emotional aspects of language.
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The social dimension is not perceptual in any way, it is entirely a dimension of multilevel inference. If multilevel inference is impaired, then social learning and social self expression will also be impaired.
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