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And because the light gets passed through a pinhole (the pupil) before hitting the back of our eyes, we actually see everything upside-down

Just give me the bloody neurolink already, I’m ready to ascend into the hivemind

Meanwhile bees and ants are unpaid interns

I mean, placebo is still a placebo. My point was that a placebo doesn’t automatically mean 0% effective. I’m not using it as a negative term here. But I do get your point, I think.

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

Human brains are really, really bad at multiplying. This means we can’t really imagine a 1000 of something, so the sheer scale is difficult to perceive intuitively. That might be part of the reason, I think.

Jokes on you, I was already on the toilet when seeing this post

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

no, it’s wrapped until Christmas