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are you buttonholing people at bars and parties now and telling them all about how you finally figured out walking. how do they...

Anonymous asked:

are you buttonholing people at bars and parties now and telling them all about how you finally figured out walking. how do they react to that

kontextmaschine:

No, in fact as public life returns I find I’m facing capacity problems; when I’m around a bunch of people I know, it’s like to think of anyone I have to load the whole graph of their relation to each other into memory, and this draws on the same resources I use to resolve complex visual fields or exercise new fine motor control. From digital media I almost expect clipping or pop-in here, but instead I just sorta… abstract away and become a simpler thing in the world. I expect that’ll probably improve a bit with experience.

This does get at something that’s been gnawing at the back of my mind – it’s always been a significant part of my self-conception that I was significantly more intelligent than the average person, what if some of that was that I was just feeling, moving, seeing in limited but less computationally expensive ways, leaving more to spare?