#cognitive processing

[art-of-mathematics]

Interesting... One of my approaches to correct my cognitive processing via metacognition are very similar... The concept I could finally map fairly detailled some weeks ago, and reading articles on Quantum Bayesian Optimization now. .. well, I see very similar patterns, even with incredible amount of detail considered in both realm...

Emergent properties of error-correction algorithms in non-linear dynamical information systems (as form of self-organization)... could explain the similarity between cognition's underlying non-linear processing patterns - and quantum computing/ quantum information flows / quantum logic in general.

[thepotentialof2007]

Media usage diminishes memory for experiences

Here, we examine how experiences change when people are experimentally induced to not use media, use media to record their experiences, or use media to share their experiences with others. In each study, we assess memory using a performance measure of how well participants retain the details of an experience.

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Everyday moments are fleeting, but media allow us to hold onto these moments by saving them for ourselves and sharing them with others. These studies highlight ways in which using media impacts our personal experiences, both in the moment and in memory. Ironically, our results suggest that using media to preserve these moments may prevent people from fully experiencing them in the first place. These effects can be both substantial and sustained: media distract us from our experiences – limiting our ability to remember the moments we so wish to hold on to.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.01.006

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

In two experiments, we test the hypothesis that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. We manipulate smartphone salience by asking participants to place their devices nearby and in sight (high salience, “desk” condition), nearby and out of sight (medium salience, “pocket/bag” condition), or in a separate room (low salience, “other room” condition).

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Consumers’ limited cognitive resources shape innumerable aspects of their daily lives, from their approaches to decisions to their enjoyment of experiences. Our data suggest that the mere presence of consumers’ own smartphones may further constrain their already limited cognitive capacity by taxing the attentional resources that reside at the core of both working memory capacity and fluid intelligence.

The specific cognitive capacity measures used in our experiments are associated with domain-general capabilities that support fundamental processes such as learning, logical reasoning, abstract thought, problem solving, and creativity. Because consumers’ smartphones are so frequently present, the mere presence effects observed in our experiments have the potential to influence consumer welfare across a wide range of contexts: when consumers work, shop, take classes, watch movies, dine with friends, attend concerts, play games, receive massages, read books, and more .

doi:10.1086/691462

[lokidotir]

Scrolling though pintrist, when I found this

And it made me think of this

Sorry that they aren't actually screen shots. I have a horrible time finding good quality ones. But they just made me think...

I dunno. Ignore me 😁

[crazycatsiren]

Babies on the train: *scream*

Me: *puts on noise cancelling headphones* Good gods why would anybody ever want to have one of those.

[moash]

i want to remind people that moash was a slave of the fused in oathbringer and the choice to become vyre was continue being a menial slave or be an important slave, and immediately after making that choice he is under the influence of incredibly powerful mind-altering magic (akin imo to someone with a very strong chemical dependency) his “choices” are not in any way shape or form made in equal conditions to the characters you compare him to.

[thesherrinfordfacility]

hang on one fuckin second, since when has aziraphale ever used a key to get into the shop????

either its just simply a detail ive missed in s1 (im sure someone will educate me), or

something has happened that means aziraphale can't just simply enter the shop like he normally does (like when he swanned off for a school trip to tadfield and just... left the shop physically unlocked for when he came back), OR

this is the scene that immediately precedes crowley finding out about gooby, and aziraphale thought that in the event heaven and hell come looking for goob, he'll add a little extra security to his magically impenetrable (?) bookshop - ya know, just in case

oh and it has a ✨cute little tassel✨

[raffaellopalandri]

Daniel Dennett (1942 - 2024)

Many of us today woke up to a world that felt a little less vibrant, a little less intellectually stimulating. Daniel Dennett, a philosopher who revolutionized our understanding of the mind, science, and consciousness, passed away yesterday. Daniel Dennett, image taken from Wikipedia For me, Dennett was a guiding light in his study field. His work, particularly his early books “Content and…

[glorious-mysteries]

One of my biggest pet peeves is people assuming I don't have common sense and/or that they have to explain basic things to me the same way you would to a five year old who is still learning how to exist in the world and unfortunately I am seeing more and more of this from people who are desperate to show off how informed and correct they are. I think the most anger that I experienced over the course of this very difficult academic year was when I had to do a group project on Huckleberry Finn for my American lit class and our topic was Twain's use of humour and whether this contributes to racism in the novel or deflects from it. I was disagreeing with someone else in my group over the ending--she thought it was very effective, I thought it took away from what Twain was doing in the first two sections. This is a debate that has been played out many times before by people way smarter than we are and tbh I do not care that she disagreed with me. What bothered me was that she made it clear that she thought I was stupid and that if she just spoke rudely and condescendingly to me she would not be proved right exactly but she would at least distance herself from my ignorance. She didn't care that I had read several articles about the ending of Huckleberry Finn and had been intrigued by one critic's theory that the burlesque at the end of the novel was meant to show that black and white relations at the time of its publications were a burlesque of what they should have been and had thought about this a lot before deciding that it ultimately did not change my opinion--she just assumed that I was basing my stance off of a surface-level reading and told me in an incredibly contemptuous tone that if I wanted the author to spell out the correct moral interpretation to go watch Dora the Explorer. I will be real I wanted to strangle her esp since this was in front of others. I told her she was being ridiculous but I wish I had told her not to speak to me like that. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it.

[lunaristars]

The 8 Cognitive Functions Explained

[brightlotusmoon]

https://mobile.twitter.com/wormspoodle/status/1610013214065975296?s=46&t=tvpuOyZjESkdbcLIZ_RGfw

Being autistic with ADHD means both at the same time.

[crimeronan]

i'm working on the next wwaitsoatl chapter, which as i've previously mentioned is by FAR my most involved story as far as, like, technical process goes. i finished the second draft of the chapter and went "god, wow, this is all shit, this all sucks so bad, i'm never gonna be able to make anything usable out of this" and then stepped away for a few hours and now i'm midway through the first editing pass and i just keep going "oh my god. oh my god. holy Shit this is gonna bang so fucking hard once i fix it all. oh this is gonna go so hard there's so much potential. fuck YES oh my GOD my HORRIBLE LITTLE BITCHES ARE BACK-"

[e-the-village-cryptid]

i’m curious if there’s a link here, please tell me in the tags if your inner monologue has subtitles, whether or not you have a hearing or auditory processing disability, and whether or not you learned to read early and read a lot as a kid

(by subtitles i mean that you automatically visualize the written form of the words you are thinking. the way this actually happens can be anywhere from the written form of the words just popping into your head to an actual subtitle-looking area. the only criteria are that 1. you visualize the written form of most or all words 2. it is completely automatic and happens without trying or thinking about it)

[gutwrenchflowerbomb]

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[trashlie]

Shinae the Light vs Yui the Shadow

This post heavily discusses episode 138 but also pulls from 170, 179, and 180 and discusses things up to 214, but nothing from the FP epsiodes! 

Earlier today I read this post and it got me thinking a LOT - and trust me that I’m going to ramble about something else shortly outside of this lol - regarding shadows and lighting!

One of the episodes that most deliberately plays with lighting and shadows in a very in your face way is episode 138, where Shinae speaks to Rand about wanting to renegotiate her contract. It’s an interesting episode, because Shinae is met with another side of Rand than the man (the father) who was trying to help Nol. This version of him shuts her down immediately and informs her that he has no jurisdiction over her contract.

As readers, we can deduce that he is speaking this way because Yui is around and he cannot divulge any bit of knowledge that he has been working with Shinae, that there is any sense of relationship there. But also, he isn’t lying in that he can do nothing about her contract. Interestingly, he is in the light where she is in the shadow. He’s not the focus of this moment, but I find that very interesting regardless - Rand is unable to help because he doesn’t have that power. They aren’t on equal footing here. One is in the dark, one has the power of illumination - he knows more intimately than Shinae who and what Yui is.

But my thought is not about Rand but rather Shinae and Yui.

Throughout their conversation, Shinae is in the shadow. She is part of Yui’s trap, in a pit she cannot crawl out of. Yui wields power over her both in the sense of her employer and also as a person who has played with her as prey. Yui, too, is in the shadow. While some light casts on her, she faces away from it and it doesn’t reach her face.

I’ve wondered a lot about Yui and what her situation is, why she is the kind of person she is. I don’t think she’s without reasons - I just think we don’t know enough about her to really know yet. One of the popular theories is that of the Mukoyoshi Theory - that is, that a Japanese family with no male heirs will “adopt” the husband of (one of) their daughter, who will take their last name, rather than she take his. In this case, Yui comes from a Japanese family with a family business and it is deducible that there is no male heir. Hansuke’s family name is Shishido - not Hirahara, which means he’s related by his aunt (and Yui has mentioned her before to him). Rand, who we know is not Japanese, married into the Hirahara family and adopted their name and became a part of their family. Thus, his affair with Nessa is even more of a blight - he has a duty to the Hirahara family. It is his responsibility to not mar their name and upkeep their prestige.

We could do a whole think piece about this, and it really gets into my thoughts on Rand and Yui’s relationship, but to sum it up: it is clear that Yui wants to be the one in control, but must defer to Rand, and that she resents it. This is HER family business. I think she wishes that she was the one in control, and that she could wield that control without having to go through Rand. Yui harbors resentment for a patriarchal society in which she wields no power. There’s a lot to read into re: the way she wields her femininity as a tool, but that’s a whole other post. The point is: Yui resents that she does not have the power she thinks she deserves, the power that she’s capable of, and that fully plays into Shinae.

But, for the sake of this post at this time, it’s essentially that Yui, too, exists in the dark, in the shadows. She can only run this company through others - through her marriage to Rand, through Kousuke, the sole heir. But as powerful and intimidating as she is, she, too, is trapped. She, too, is relegated to the darkness, because it is only from the shadows that she can operate. Yui wears a constant mask, always putting on the front of a concerned mother, a feeble frail lady, a sweet simpering maternal woman. The real Yui lives in the shadows. She’s not allowed to freely be the person she wants to be, she puts on a front for society, for the patriarchy, for the sake of being able to move in the shadows.

Shinae’s objective is to escape the shadow, the prison, the dark. She longs to escape poverty, she longs to escape the prison she turned herself into, she longs to escape the job in which she feels unsafe, the contract that she signed, the agreement she made under false premises. She longs to escape Yui’s reach. And while she can’t escape most of those yet, she still works towards the light. unlike Yui, who has accepted that she belongs to and operates in the shadows and pulls people into them with her, Shinae strives for the light at all times. She wants to be a better daughter, a better friend. She strives to be able to help out her father and create a better life for them. And especially since the black and white formal, Shinae’s inclination towards the right side, the side of light, has grown stronger.

It’s not a bad vs good kind of thing so much as Shinae chooses to work honestly. She’s trying to address the things that scare her - the insecurity she felt about Maya and Rika’s friendship, the quiet plaguing fear that maybe Minhyuk also just tolerated her. She’s had difficult conversations with her father, she has had difficult conversations with her friends. Instead of shirking into the shadows, Shinae moves towards enlightenment. Even if things end, isn’t it better for them to end on good terms, with understanding? Even if she gets hurt, isn’t it better than she gets hurt being honest, than never progress at all? Even if she fails, isn’t it better to make effort than live with regret?

Shinae leaving Yui by way of the light is pointed. Yui’s goal is to pull everyone down with her. If she lives in the shadows, so, too, must everyone else. And the thing about this scene is - I think Yui means it, genuinely. She has a very different way of seeing the world than Shinae and even much of us as readers. Shinae believes in working hard; Yui understands that privilege and connections are more powerful. Yui can see in Shinae the makings of a strong, powerful woman - but power doesn’t have to look one way. For Yui, power is controlling those around her, especially the ones who are meant to have power over her. In a world where men are the all-power, Yui feels powerful when she can manipulate and push them around.

But when she tells Shinae she doesn’t want her to make the “wrong choices” I believe her. It’s just... what does Yui consider to be the wrong choices? Much in the same way that so much of ILY changes based on whose perspective you view it through re: Nol and Kousuke, we the same of Shinae and Yui. Yui is a woman who knows how to make the world yield to you, how to get what you want out of it.

This is a whole other tangent, but because I’m trying to validate my Yui views lol, I believe this is part of what Yui has done with Meg and Alyssa. In fact, I feel like Yui has absolutely treated Meg and her obsession with Kousuke as a joke - what woman demeans herself in such a way for a man? It’s the complete opposite of Yui’s power. Men yield to HER, not the other way around. Is Alyssa a test of her will, to see how much she will bend before she can break? Does Yui hope to find a hidden spine in her, someone who will eventually push back? I think that’s why she has shifted to Shinae - she has the fight and the spirit that Yui wants to mold. Shinae is strong and faces her fears. But she also stands for the complete opposite of Yui, which makes her a fun challenge.

As Shinae moves into the light and leaves Yui to the shadows, Yui makes an attempt to pull her back into them. Or maybe, rather, she’s planted the seed? It’s an ominous moment, Yui’s certainty that there will be a time when Shinae will go running to her, will want her help, her step up in the world. But at this moment, Yui is unsuccessful. Though Shinae cannot renegotiate her contract like she wanted, she still makes the choice to deny Yui’s offering. She will continue her path in the light. She refuses to let Yui pull her down into her shadows.

As much as we view this story as a game of chess between the white and dark side, so much of it gets told through the shadows and the light. Who else spends his time illustrated in the shadows, existing outside of peoples’ view, wearing a mask out in the light? Nol is one of Yui’s prey - he’s learning how to stand on his own feet as himself, but so much of his imagery has been enshrouded in shadows, a victim of Yui for so long that he’s forgotten how to make his way out of the dark, until now.

Shinae has the ability to bring him out of the shadow, to give him the eventual courage to exist outside of the shadows, to allow himself to enjoy the light. Every time he turns away, he finds himself drawn back in. Every moment he’s angled himself away from her in effort to stay where he thinks he belongs, to skulk in the dark, he still ends up moving towards her.

And every time that Nol choose to go towards Shinae, he moves towards the light.

Like literally lol. In the pool, he basked there in the dark, willing to finally throw in the towel accept that peace, but because of Shinae, because of his penance, he chose to move towards the light once again. Maybe he thought it would be for the last time, but we’ve seen better.

Shinae guides him back out of the shadows.

And that brings us to my next post: how Shinae is the true adversary of Yui. 

Really, go read @denjidomination​’s post! It’s got me going off on a whole different tangent than I planned to this week, but I think I’ll be able to get to it before the next update. I’ve said for so long now that Shinae is very likely meant to help bridge Nol and Kousuke, but I think more than that, Shinae is the guiding light for them - that in very different ways, both Nol and Kousuke exist in the shadows and are imprisoned by their circumstances and experiences, and Shinae, I think, is the one who will be able to help them fight back against that darkness. I don’t mean this in a “She will save/fix them” kind of way as much as her presence in their lives, what she means to them, will help them to move from that which holds them down. 

But I have a headache so I have to work on that another time lol 

[avephelis]

ARE YOU SHITTING ME the thing the guys doing my cognitive profile told me "probably means you don't have adhd" IS ACTUALLY A COMMON THING IN PEOPLE WITH ADHD AND HIGH IQ goodbye