I do think brains are a tricky substrate, but then again I've arrived at testable hypotheses through introspection alone.
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(and had them confirmed by neuroscience, which was fun. Would have to search, but it was about modeling memory formation)
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Oh yeah here: nature.com/neuro/journal/
Through introspection, I had mapped out the "shape" of a memory and its retrieval
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arriving at a model where related memories would be stored "next" to each other, and a recall would strengthen it
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incidentally "crowding out" related memories that were less salient and lived on the "side streets".
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then a few weeks later I read about that paper and it just fit together perfectly.
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I do not think the neurons are physically arranged that way, but what counts here is the inside view and conceptual space.
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I have long been intrigued by the interplay between volitional and involuntary memory retrieval.
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tbh being really stoned helped - it slowed down memory retrieval to an introspectable level, saw the page faults/cache misses
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that time, I had a memory glitch (involunt. recall) where I got the wrong one, and wondered "just why did that just happen?"
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being stoned is usually awful for thinking and meditation (I've tried), but for certain kinds of introspection it's useful
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I've recently given up a weed addiction and I do believe my thinking is more clear, I'm certainly sleeping less.... .
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Oops, I've been forgetting to click "reply" to my last tweets.. I apologize if the thread has been torture for you to read.
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But yes, weed does give those "aha" moments, though they are probably mostly delusional, some seem genuine.
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That kind of idea I usually write down and test while sober. Some nice insights, others just rambling.