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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

when i studied abroad at cambridge one of the people in the same cohort as me (as in, came with me from MIT) was also face blind, and when i ran into her at MIT afterwards she didn’t recognize me in the hallway at all. context was too different. kinda spooky

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

i do also find it amusing to speculate about how face blindness might force you to get good at explicit bayesian reasoning about who the person you’re talking to is based on the evidence of their clothes, hair, etc. (yud is face blind, idk how well-known this is)

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Whaaaaaat

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So was Oliver Sacks come to think of it

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

whaaaaaat

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Oliver Sacks describes his struggle with face blindness | MinnPost

In a fascinating article in the current issue of the New Yorker, Dr.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

jane goodall too??? whoaaa hmm

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Does uh Does seeing human faces make u dumb

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Wait can face blind people differentiate animal faces

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Like Jane could differentiate between the gorillas right?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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idk man but you're asking the real questions here

5:25 PM · Aug 13, 2021Twitter Web App

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sciencedirect.com/science/articl hmmm seems like it usually doesnt but can def occur? some people even have hard time with cars

sciencedirect.com

Prosopagnosia with Animal Face Agnosia

On rare occasions, the inability to identify animal faces forms a part of prosopagnosia, the inability to recognise human faces. A case is reported wh…

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