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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 19:22:46 JST myrmepropagandist

   Capgras delusion is a psychological disorder where the sufferer will be convinced that people and objects have been replaced with identical imposters.

   The existence of such a disorder suggests that the way recognize individuals works on multiple levels. It's thought to have a physiological cause. It looks like your mother, but some core authenticity, some deep signal is missing.

   (Some of the conversations I've had about AI art have made me feel like I have this disorder.)

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 19:22:45 JST myrmepropagandist

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     I sometimes wonder if everyone would show symptoms to an onset of whatever causes the Capgras delusion. It seems like people who have this problem can, sometimes, overcome it by learning how it works and understanding that the way they feel when they see people they care about has radically changed forever, but that need not mean they are seeing imposters. They can intellectualize their way out of the need to accuse people of being "fakes."

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 19:26:24 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @futurebird I feel it may be a kind of acquired faceblindness. The ca. 2.5% born with faceblindness face the practical problems, but it doesn’t cause psychological distress directly. The ones who get faceblindness from a brain tumor or brain injury are super upset by not recognizing their relatives. In both cases the relevant brain part is not working or used for something else.