{"id":1895,"date":"2012-06-17T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:46:32","slug":"the-minds-little-friend-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/the-minds-little-friend-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"The mind’s “little friend” behind the scenes."},"content":{"rendered":"

A great insight was mentioned on On The Media this week,<\/a> on a language\u00a0algorithm that detects anachronisms in Mad Men, exposing how modern terms and phrases that evolved since the time period slip in unnoticed. \u00a0 It exposes how change in the world that people are not watching as it occurs, seem to completely\u00a0escape\u00a0our\u00a0awareness. So new things keep popping up in what we think is “normal”, becoming part of the “ever present” reality we wake up with every morning. <\/em><\/p>\n

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There’s a wonderful, still deeper truth, to your story, “about an algorithm that detects anachronisms in Mad Men and Downtown Abbey.”<\/p>\n

Yes, modern TV scripts intended to be accurate about historical speech do contain “tell tale signs” of our real ignorance of the history, particularly for the histories of change we don\u2019t pay attention to. \u00a0\u00a0We don’t, though, misplace the history of changing ideas for subjects that we keep track of, as they change.<\/p>\n

The larger general problem that points to is partly that it is not just TV that is affected, for course.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What\u2019s affected is actually all of “reality” that simply appears in our brains a fixed “ever-present” state of things, glossing over most all of the things in our lives that that are constantly changing.\u00a0 \u00a0Without the real data on the flows of change, we seem just unaware of the flow of time at all, is where I arrived at.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve studied it as the quite important question of physics. \u00a0It’s just hard to catch your brain making the little sequential steps of change in your own perception of “the ever-present reality” every night during sleep. \u00a0It helps explain why science so strongly tends to represent nature as having fixed equations, but always a new changeless set of them each time someone tries to describe things.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I think the root of it is that consciousness seems to include a kind of stop motion image making function, that updates its whole “software package” for the next day, as we sleep each night.<\/p>\n

One of the more testable illusions that seems to give us is how the “ever-present” of our consciousness deceives each of us so completely, into thinking that the world we see in our minds is the one everyone else also lives in.\u00a0 That just isn\u2019t so, of course, and so the data of the continuity of change shows clearly too (that I study).\u00a0 The strong illusion that our minds perceive “reality” persists anyway!\u00a0\u00a0 Cool, no?<\/p>\n


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A great insight was mentioned on On The Media this week, on a language\u00a0algorithm that detects anachronisms in Mad Men, exposing how modern terms and phrases that evolved since the time period slip in unnoticed. \u00a0 It exposes how change in the world that people are not watching as it occurs, seem to completely\u00a0escape\u00a0our\u00a0awareness. So … Continue reading The mind’s “little friend” behind the scenes.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-among-best-2","category-teaching","category-theory","category-scitheory","category-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}