one of the ideas I've been sitting with lately is that our conventional metaphor for instrumentation is limiting. I think we like the microscope metaphor because it reminds us of other things that we consider to be the fundamental constituents of reality. Cells, molecules, etc.
results. as expected, most people favored the microscope metaphor. lots of vote for "other" though! wish some more of you would have mentioned what you had in mind.https://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1050922335933485056 …
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but isn't the vastness of space also a fundamental structure of reality? why are we less comfortable thinking of the mind as being like a distant galaxy that we can examine with a telescope? is it because we associate it with our brain, which is behind our eyes?
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or how about a perspective shift. imagine putting your point of observation right down there in the midst of your brain, at the size of a neuron. what would you see as you looked around? a vast and interconnected cosmos of neural structures.
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