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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Bouba/Kiki is a synchronization primitive among language encoded in genes, but it isn't arbitrary. Everybody basing these highfalutin theories on it are ignoring entire swaths of experience, wiped under the rug because we're 'diseased' and don't count.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/916018232661815298 …
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I don’t think it’s genetic. The shape perception is related to the geometry of the phonetic model. Bouba is round for the same reasons that spheres are round.
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I think genes play a minor role, but only in that the bias a lot of attention and cognitive rigidity aspects. But I also suspect much of that is filtered thru the larger holobiont, which is culturally mediated ala diet and social norms.
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Stuff like https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/01/01/gene-variation-affects-mental-task-performance-after-sleep-deprivation/130638.html … ends up being modulated by social norms around sleep, for example.
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