Comment by 🌲 Half_Elf_Monk
Re: "Developing a Strange Psychosis"
This is an amazing idea for a lot of reasons. I imagine it doesn't make you look more normal when you're 'spacing out', but you're beginning to imagine the thing-as-itself rather than the thing-as-you-see-it. I bet those are each one word in German. Ach. We do quite a bit of predictive/imaginative thinking in assuming that parts-of-things exist outside of our sight. It's a correct assumption, but still an assumption based on patterns.
May 01 · 6 days ago
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Developing a Strange Psychosis — For a while I've been playing a visualization game "Rotate a Cow". Basically you picture a cow and spin it around as if it was on a CAD screen. Over the last year I've been trying a different experiment, and it is backfiring. In this one you place yourself into another person's head, and look at the world from their perspective. It is purely visual -- you are just trying to see what they would see. You can focus on a passerby in the street and "invade" their…