Блоги: заметки с тегом the brain

Magnetic mind-control

Robert — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:58:53 +0500

Robert:

Manmade magnetic pulses can weaken faith in god and change attitude towards immigration.

Metal detectors, get lost!

Handedness

Robert — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:33:33 +0500

Robert:

It’s crazy how nearly everybody lets one hand become dominant. Much better to develop capabilities in both!

For better brain health, use your non-dominant hand more.

Scary is scarry

Robert — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:40:54 +0500

Robert:

Scary is scarry: fear harms health. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.

Instead, set a personal placebo: this infection will only make me stronger, this hit to the head will only improve my eyesight, this delay will give me more time for a walk.

Typeface minimalism

Robert — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:02:22 +0500

Robert:

Familiar typefaces can help read quicker.

That’s why I’m trying to reduce the amount of typefaces around me to just a few:

JetBrains Mono for code and the command line,
Atkinson Hyperlegible for my Latin-alphabet projects,
Garamond for books,
my handwriting,
San Francisco for nearly everything else.

Alas, many items around me use other typefaces.

Reading fiction (not)

Robert — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:30:51 +0500

Robert:

I find it hard to read works of fiction as of late. My mind keeps telling me to toss the patently untrue.

False weather memories?

Robert — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:24:02 +0500

Robert:

There doesn’t seem to be any global warming. But weather conditions are bouncing around a whole lot more.

Or are they? What if climate propaganda has made us pay particular attention to the weather? It’s quite easy to induce false memories.

People wearing AirPods

Robert — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:11:47 +0500

Robert:

People wearing AirPods are NPCs under mind-control, voluntarily frying their brains with harmful non-natural electromagnetic frequencies. I do not interact with such people until they take the suckers out.

This request annoys many, as AirPods are purposefully designed to stay in the body for as long as possible: one has to fumble when putting them into the case, while water resistance and Adaptive Transparency—control over how much external sound is heard—incentivise just keeping them in.

These devices are a pathway into the soulless, transhumanist, artificial “augmented” reality in which a person loses awareness of his surroundings.

The World Economic Forum has recently announced that mind-reading earbuds are coming later this year.

Fractal mind-mapping

Robert — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:28:57 +0500

Robert:

Fractal mind-mapping is the best: it lets me find ideas that I wouldn’t have gotten to otherwise.

Food tastes however you want

Robert — Wed, 06 May 2020 23:06:49 +0500

Robert:

Whether something is delicious or disgusting depends entirely on one’s beliefs. It’s effortless to turn food that was once vomited into one’s favorite meal.

Summary of Jonah Lehrer’s “How we decide”

Robert — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:54:58 +0500

Robert:

People often make incorrect choices when there are more than four variables.

Simple problems require reason, while the complex not so much. When there’s a large variety of items to choose from, get the one that maximises enjoyment.

People memorise patterns without even knowing.

The emotional brain, powered by dopamine, is paramount for making good decisions.

People get addicted out of excitement, not necessity.

People get upset if what we expected didn’t come to fruition.

Being certain about something is a deceptive feeling.

Prize-linked savings accounts work because we like uncertainty.

Psychopaths don’t feel morality, and therefore, their wrongdoing.

People have a larger sense of loss than for win, even when dealing with the same value.

Never say that you wouldn’t do something in the way that that person handles it, because that person is who you would be at that moment in that situation.

When there’s an abundance of information, we may infer the irrelevant. Cut down on the noise, focus on what’s important.

Don’t think too much.