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   ?Hidden? (hidden@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:55 JST ?Hidden?
   Anyone else find it basically impossible to read fiction e-books. Non-fiction or philosophy is fine but I need fiction in my hands
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:46 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • ringo
     Do you know about the flashing faces effect?
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     Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:47 JST Parker Banks

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     @ringo @hidden One neat thing is that if you flash images at a given rate, the brain will spike at that same frequency, so you often have to filter out the refresh rate of the screen you're using. But if you interleave different types of images (e.g., upright & inverted faces) at different frequencies without a common factor (e.g., 11 & 13 Hz) you can piece out how much they're processing one kind of image vs another.
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     ringo (ringo@talk-here.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:51 JST ringo

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     • Parker Banks
     @parker @hidden that too
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     Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:52 JST Parker Banks

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     @ringo @hidden A screen is emitting light, the image is constantly being refreshed, it isn't as sharp as the physical world, and is attached to a box with internet on it, none of which are conducive to deep concentration.
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     ringo (ringo@talk-here.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:53 JST ringo

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     I can't read books on the screen. it just ...... they're incompatible.
     
     my theory is this:
     
     screen - demonic computer technology
     
     paper - a real thing, muscles moving, eyes moving, no distractions, its not a scrying mirror being repurposed as a book..
     
     when we go to share our thoughts on say social media, the driving factor is spirit and ego, and we're not in that passive imagining absorptive mode that goes along with a book. non fiction is a bit different as it's more critical thinking, which again involves the ego.
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     Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:02:54 JST Parker Banks

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     @hidden I don't read any e-books, paper or audiobooks I can do, but reading on a monitor, I always lose focus really quickly.
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     Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 03:08:30 JST Parker Banks

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     • ringo
     @bot @hidden @ringo Which one?