I'm tired of "I had a hunch"....
"I had a hunch". "I had a feeling". "It jsut came to me".
Bah.
We (you and me reading this) are a huge mass of sensors connected to a massive processing device with huge, near photographic storage and a particular expertise in pattern matching.
OF COURSE we're subconciously recieveing and processing information and some of it become relevant. "I had a feeling something was wrong with my car, I took it into the shop and wow, it was almost busted!"
No, you careless thinker. Your butt, hands, and feet have been recording vibrations from that car for the last two years, and the pattern of recordings changed and that became that "feeling". No, it;s just your brain doing it's normal, expected, job, please stop treating "hunches" and "feelings" like they're some psycic mystery.
Bah.
We (you and me reading this) are a huge mass of sensors connected to a massive processing device with huge, near photographic storage and a particular expertise in pattern matching.
OF COURSE we're subconciously recieveing and processing information and some of it become relevant. "I had a feeling something was wrong with my car, I took it into the shop and wow, it was almost busted!"
No, you careless thinker. Your butt, hands, and feet have been recording vibrations from that car for the last two years, and the pattern of recordings changed and that became that "feeling". No, it;s just your brain doing it's normal, expected, job, please stop treating "hunches" and "feelings" like they're some psycic mystery.
posted by Alex Kinnison at 9:27 PM
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