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 …
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.
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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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You may be overthinking this. Telescopes are for seeing things far away. Microscopes are for up close.
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