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
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\u2026 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 \u2013 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?
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