Well... not exactly. It means a lot of people saw it. Hell, I almost saw it in theaters and I was told it was, to be honest, not a very good movie, and kinda racist, but very pretty. High box office numbers always mean something, but they don’t mean a film was liked. In this case, I think the fact that the film was…

Okay, no one here or related to this article is saying that. So Susan Blackmore seems like a bit of a non-sequitur.

I don’t see how the mind making immediate if unconscious processing attempts is an argument against anything. That’s the whole point. Unconscious processing is constant, but you only get conscious frames every 400ms or so (it’s possible that the brain will rush a new frame if something triggers it to do so, like a…

Pricing depends a little on where you go and where you live. I just... don’t buy snacks (I can go two hours with a snack), and have the fortune of often being able to hit late-morning weekday showings, so I can get in and out of a theater, with one other moviegoer, for ten bucks. (Tickets are much more elsewhere,…

Unless they get really unlucky and they happen to be synced up to hit the ground right as the image refreshes. You don’t know where they were in the cycle when they fell.

Not really, no. Zeno’s Arrow is the idea that, because everything is infinitely dividable, motion isn’t real, and it’s all an illusion. ... Or something. The idea being if it takes an arrow has to travel halfway to the target before it can hit it, and then half of the remaining distance, then half that, etc, etc, it…

Likely very technical. It looks like they got their data from visual fMRI studies, which I don’t know enough about to point at exactly what they would be. Usually cognitive psychology experiments are, while still on the softer side of science though, more predictive and falsifiable than anything else in the subject…

No, but the fact that you get that information in chunks with a measurable gap between them might mean you are unconscious during those gaps. You aren’t aware of them after all. There are other explanations, but most of them involve your brain lying to you. (Which isn’t really that surprising. Your brain fills in your…

Reaction time and processing lag aren’t the same thing.

I think he really, really wanted a reason to use Rick and Morty as a page image, to be honest. It is one spectacular jump... and I’m speaking as a guy who doesn’t think a soul is a meaningful concept. It does have some implication on consciousness because we don’t perceive a gap, and they’re all pretty weird. The…

Yeah, that’s always a fun one. There’s a neat illusion you can do with a mirror as well that basically involves using it to block one eye, so your left and right eyes get different input, and then having a friend wave a hand in front of your non-mirrored eye. Basically if you’re focusing on the mirror, you see…

You’re kinda right and kinda wrong... the article overstates the implications.

BUT the thing is, we don’t perceive a gap. We experience consistent vision, not a series of very quick frames, even though there’s actually frequent pauses in vision. That could mean many things: A. People are not conscious during the gaps.…

Yeah, no one is saying consciousness isn’t real. They’re saying you aren’t as conscious as you think you are. That’s a big difference. The way you perceive your thought processes isn’t the same as how they actually work. And we can look at how the brain handles information, and how perception is different from…

Yep, and my argument, as per the above is: “Yes you can” and “Probably, but it’s likely for the best anyhow” respectively.

Sure, but that’s not really the focus of the article. Even when you’re focusing on something that appears consistent, there’s actually a lot of background processing going on, and you’re basically looking at old information. What looks to you like a live event, even when you’re focusing on it, is really time delayed…

As far as I can tell, this isn’t really a new theory, but rather some specific data on an older idea. ... Not that I object to the article, but if this is a new model, it’s very similar to some older ones. Still an awesome subject though.

That’s because that’s a different topic. This theory is about sensation and perception, not memory retrieval. There are plenty of theories about memory retrieval elsewhere. The general idea, however, is that memories are cued by association, either association from other thoughts, or outside stimuli... like smells.…

... Honestly though, don’t say millennial. I know millennials, I’m one of them. There are just as many racist horrible ones as social justice activists. Meanwhile my grandma won’t stop posting Bernie Saunders stuff on Facebook.

It’s not that saying it makes you horrible and awful and evil... you just kind of sound…

Yep, I agree completely with... almost everything you wrote.

Lots of other people are uncritically repackaging Lovecraft in... frankly all kinds of forms, from board games to video games, a rather dull dice game my younger brother had. And stuffed Cthulu’s etc, etc... most of which just strive to be not-racist and are otherwise totally uncritical. No one really has an issue…