i never really understood this entirely. please explain
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1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
The human brain has not evolved to process and separate moving images that are not real from actual memories.
That's it.
There's a lot to be said about that and I hope that if I go on a tangent it will not dilute the point of the first paragraph.
Your brain can't make the distinction between television and memory below the conscious level, and once we look at it from that perspective, the effects of the programming and the subtle, constant nature of the enforcement training stand out to us better.
Babies learn everything by observing. Not exploring. When they explore, they engage in what theyve *observed* and test that against the world and weigh the world's input. That never stops. At a certain point we observe everything we need to know to convincingly "be people", which is really just brainwashing via exposure, but it's how we're built and it is exploitable via moving images.
Yep, and it's not just babies, there's a strong tendency in humans in general to model the behavior of those we see as successful. So, they just need to write the successful characters as having tendencies they want to spread, then let the blind spots in our brains do the rest.
That's it.
There's a lot to be said about that and I hope that if I go on a tangent it will not dilute the point of the first paragraph.
Your brain can't make the distinction between television and memory below the conscious level, and once we look at it from that perspective, the effects of the programming and the subtle, constant nature of the enforcement training stand out to us better.
Babies learn everything by observing. Not exploring. When they explore, they engage in what theyve *observed* and test that against the world and weigh the world's input. That never stops. At a certain point we observe everything we need to know to convincingly "be people", which is really just brainwashing via exposure, but it's how we're built and it is exploitable via moving images.