Re:The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say res...
by xelxebar on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:44PM
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Would you mind elaborating a bit? This is something I've recently been trying to get more intimately familiar with and new metaphors are a really helpful rubric.
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Re:The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say res...
by Baeocystin on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:20PM
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With the caveat that I think stretching the metaphor too much further would exceed its utility, my point is only that awareness is not a smooth process, but occurs in fits and starts, slightly delayed from actual reality- it takes time for a brain to assemble meaning from its sensorium.
Different parts of the brain can work semi-independently, while other parts are strictly single-use. And 'resetting' one's mental machinery after this kind of interference takes a measurable amount of time, much like the triggering of garbage collection.
The Stroop Effect is a good demonstration of this kind of cognitive collision.