rockerface@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder
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1 year agoJust give me the bloody neurolink already, I’m ready to ascend into the hivemind
Just give me the bloody neurolink already, I’m ready to ascend into the hivemind
Meanwhile bees and ants are unpaid interns
Placebo effect is real. So is the opposite. Not in the way that it magically changes the universe, but it can influence your own body
If the Earth were the size of a basketball, it wouldn’t even feel wet to the touch because of how thin the oceans would be relatively. Scales are wild
Not only that, but electricity travels through nerves at a finite speed (that is less than light speed), and brain spends non-zero amount of time to piece together the reality you perceive from all of your senses. So yeah, there’s always a delay in your perception and IIRC there even are experiments that prove that
And because the light gets passed through a pinhole (the pupil) before hitting the back of our eyes, we actually see everything upside-down