Ryan Tomayko

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension —

Good article. The comments are even better:

reading this article reminds me countless time I have looked at the clock and the second hand it not moving and then it starts, I am sure this takes longer than a second

That’s always freaked me out. I’ve mentioned it once or twice but people just think I’m crazy so I don’t bring it up anymore. This guy, Frank, explains the phenomenon:

In more ‘joe sixpack’-terms. After you move your eyes fast, they are unable to collect information for a fraction of a second. When the eyes comes back ‘online’ the brain collects motion-information for an equal fraction of a second, and extrapolates the information backwards to create what things should have looked like and fills this fabricated visual information into your memory. Since the needle (or digit) didn’t move while the brain was collecting info for the extrapolation, it won’t be able to predict that it moved in the past either.

Crazy. I knew something was going on.

Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy —

Being neither unhappy or intelligent, I wouldn’t know :)

Intelligent Abstractions —

Sometimes I think Aaron’s brain is my brain in the future. I’ve had all of these same ideas rattle around in my brain before but they never seem to line up so neatly for me. It bugs me a little.

A Brain Cell is the Same as the Universe —

Space goes inward.

Mentat Wiki —

“… a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker.”