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    "text": "Imagine just for a second that you are well plunging into a sensory deprivation tank."
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    "text": "okay starting right in the deep end today."
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    "text": "Yeah exactly so you get in and you pull this heavy Completely soundproof lid shut Right above your rights And you're just floating there?"
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    "text": "Right in this skin temperature salt water it's"
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    "text": "and you know, You might think that in a space of just complete and total nothingness your brain would I don't know simply power down Just gonna enjoy the quiet..."
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    "text": "But uh That is absolutely not what happens because when you deprive your brain of external data it just starts to manufacture its own."
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    "text": "It is, like within minutes people in these tanks they start seeing these geometric shapes just flashing in the dark."
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    "text": "Right Hearing distant music that literally isn't playing or they feel phantom touches because your brain is essentially this meaning-making machine and when its starved of input...it will just well hallucinate a reality Just to give itself something to process."
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    "text": "The human nervous system just utterly accores a vacuum."
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    "text": "We"
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    "text": "operate on this constant, relentless loop of predicting what is going to happen next right?"
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    "text": "Yeah Based entirely on sensory input Right"
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    "start": 90.12,
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    "text": "like constantly scanning the room"
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    "start": 91.72,
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    "text": "and when you cut that feed...the prediction engine doesn't stop absolute overdrive spinning wildly out of control."
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    "text": "And that exact biological reflex is precisely what we are going to subject our own intellects too."
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    "start": 105.64,
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    "text": "today, so welcome to Today's Deep Dive!"
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    "start": 108.18,
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    "text": "It is gonna be a weird one."
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    "start": 109.4,
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    "text": "it really is because you know usually we take this massive stack of sources for you like complex research papers sprawling articles historical data"
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    "start": 117.52,
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    "text": "pages and pages right?"
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    "start": 118.8,
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    "text": "Right...and We act as your guide extracting the most vital insights to keep you well informed."
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    "start": 125.7,
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    "text": "But today, the noise is just"
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    "start": 127.84,
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    "text": "gone."
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    "text": "Completely gone!"
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    "start": 129.539,
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    "text": "The signal's gone too."
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    "text": "We have basically been handed an intellectual sensory deprivation tank."
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    "start": 135.58,
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    "text": "It's a complete void of information but it's framed as a source document."
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    "start": 139.46,
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    "text": "I mean i Just had to acknowledge this sheer absurdity Of what is literally sitting on the desk in front us right now."
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    "start": 145.72,
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    "text": "Its almost conical"
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    "start": 147.14,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "There are no accompanying articles to review for this deep dive, none!"
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    "text": "No research notes?"
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    "start": 153.14,
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    "text": "No expert interviews...no scientific methodologies....no historical timelines."
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    "start": 158.1,
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    "text": "The entire document we have been tasked with analyzing today consists of a title and phrase."
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    "start": 164.46,
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    "text": "That's it!"
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    "start": 165.5,
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    "text": "It reads—and I am quoting the literal entirety of the text here—excerpts from Human Senses Breakdown."
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    "start": 173.06,
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    "text": "That is the complete perimeter of our given reality today, just those words."
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    "start": 176.96,
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    "text": "I mean i'm going to play the skeptic right out of the gate here."
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    "start": 179.08,
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    "text": "are we just staring at a typo?"
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    "text": "A glitch in The Matrix!"
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    "text": "Right did a server crash?"
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    "text": "or did like a web scraper fail to pull the body text?"
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    "text": "and now we're just tricking ourselves into thinking this is some profound piece of conceptual"
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    "text": "art?"
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    "start": 191.94,
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    "text": "it's a fair question"
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    "text": "because my first instinct is just say well there is nothing here let's pack it up go home"
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    "text": "Which is a totally natural reaction."
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    "text": "A server crash Is highly, highly likely to be the actual physical mechanism that created this void."
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    "start": 206.6,
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "start": 206.8,
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    "text": "A mechanical error"
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    "start": 208.0,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "But here's the thing The mechanical cause of the absence doesn't negate the psychological consequence Of it."
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    "start": 215.02,
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    "text": "Okay what do you mean by that?"
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    "start": 216.36,
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    "text": "Well When a reader or when we encounter this broken document, the effect on our cognition is very real."
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    "text": "We are confronted with framing"
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    "text": "right?"
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    "text": "A title that promises information yes"
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    "text": "and then a sudden sharp denial of That exact information."
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    "start": 232.16,
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    "text": "so what's fascinating here Is that analyzing how he react to that denial it actually a masterclass in intellectual discipline"
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    "start": 238.58,
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    "text": "a master class In dealing With nothing"
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    "start": 240.66,
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    "text": "Right."
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    "start": 241.16,
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    "text": "How do we extract meaning from The structural boundaries Of an empty space without you know just inventing things."
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    "start": 247.12,
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    "text": "And that is exactly why you, listening right now should care about this slightly maddening exercise because in our daily routines we basically live a state of chronic information overload."
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    "start": 257.06,
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    "text": "Oh totally just."
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    "text": "infinite scrolls"
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    "start": 259.2,
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    "text": "Infinite Scrolls Constant push notifications A million tabs open But occasionally We hit wall!"
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    "start": 265.8,
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    "text": "We get headline with the broken link."
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    "start": 267.48,
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    "text": "Exactly Or...we see redacted government document or Just really cryptic vague post online."
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    "start": 274.16,
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    "text": "and In those moments We are tested."
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    "start": 276.76,
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    "text": "We really are!"
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    "start": 278.04,
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    "text": "Can we analyze exactly what is in front of us without jumping to wild conclusions?"
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    "start": 283.0,
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    "text": "can we just look at the void?"
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    "text": "The real challenge is resisting the urge to let your own internal scaffolding masquerade as external fact."
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    "start": 290.5,
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    "text": "That's such a good way to put it."
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    "start": 291.94,
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    "text": "Thanks...we"
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    "text": "have to map boundaries for the Void Relying solely on the semantic weight of a few words we actually do possess."
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    "start": 299.22,
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    "text": "Okay,"
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    "text": "let's unpack this."
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    "text": "then Let's map the perimeter."
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    "text": "I guess The logical first step is to do a rigorous Semantic analysis."
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    "text": "are the actual words provided?"
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    "text": "just the words excerpts."
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    "text": "exactly that single letter implies a multiplicity."
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    "text": "Right, when you read excerpts from your brain kind of prepares for specific rhythm."
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    "text": "but the excerpt provided isn't a highlight at all."
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    "text": "it's just title."
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    "text": "repeated again"
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    "text": "That is great analogy in information theory there this concept developed by Claude Shannon."
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    "text": "Wait Claude shannon?"
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    "text": "Yeah he basically father field And talks about entropy and redundancy in communication."
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    "text": "for me"
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    "text": "So like a really dense textbook would have high entropy, you literally don't know what the next sentence is going to teach you?"
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    "text": "Precisely!"
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    "text": "Redundancy on the other hand is the predictable part of a message Like"
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    "text": "patterns we already know."
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    "text": "Right...like if I say the letters Q..you know that letter almost certainly gonna be A-EI or O"
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    "text": "Because it's English."
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    "text": "So what we have in our source document today is an extreme, almost pure case of redundancy."
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    "text": "it completely thwarts the whole consumptive nature."
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    "text": "reading Yes"
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    "text": "Right, and this text denies consumption."
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    "text": "you hit a brick wall"
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    "text": "And by denying your entry into the document it forces you to remain entirely on the surface."
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    "text": "You become hyper aware of those three specific heavily charged words acting as a barricade."
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    "start": 447.64,
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    "text": "Well"
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    "text": "let's push onto architecture with these three words."
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    "start": 450.16,
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    "text": "Yeah lets look at first one."
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    "text": "Why specify human?"
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    "start": 453.5,
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    "text": "It did great question"
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    "text": "Because if we are talking about a break down of senses adding the word human feels like a very deliberate choice that basically excludes almost entire biological"
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    "text": "world."
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    "start": 465.46,
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    "text": "It is intensely anthropocentric, and that limitation is really crucial to whatever this missing document was supposed be!"
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    "start": 472.8,
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    "text": "Also..."
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    "text": "Well there was this German biologist Jakob von Uckskull who coined this wonderful term back in the early twentieth century The Umwelt."
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    "text": "how did they translate?"
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    "text": "Roughly, it translates to environment or surrounding world."
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    "start": 489.22,
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    "text": "But he used it to describe the very unique, highly subjective sensory world that any specific organism inhabits."
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    "start": 496.88,
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    "text": "Oh okay so like how different animals experience the exact same physical space?"
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    "start": 500.66,
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    "text": "Exactly!"
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    "start": 501.28,
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    "text": "Take a tick for example."
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    "start": 502.5,
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    "text": "A tick is totally blind and deaf Really"
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    "start": 504.22,
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    "text": "It's entire umwalt its whole universe consists of just sensing body heat And the smell butyric acid from mammalian skin."
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    "start": 512.059,
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    "text": "Wow That Is The Whole Of Its Reality."
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    "start": 514.179,
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    "text": "It Sits On A Grunge And Waits For That Specific Temperature In Smell."
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    "start": 518.02,
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    "text": "So, if I'm sitting in my living room with my dog... My M-weld is completely different from a dog's M-Weld."
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  {
    "start": 524.48,
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    "text": "Even though we are physically the exact same room!"
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    "start": 527.72,
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    "text": "Yes."
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    "start": 528.6,
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    "text": "Your dog is experiencing world totally dominated by all factory gradients?"
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    "start": 533.72,
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    "text": "Smells that i am entirely oblivious to."
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    "start": 535.8,
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    "text": "Exactly You're visually dominating your room while your dog is mapping it by scent."
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    "start": 541.48,
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    "text": "Or consider the mantis shrimp."
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    "start": 543.2,
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    "text": "Oh, I've seen pictures of those."
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    "start": 544.42,
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    "text": "they are wild looking."
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    "text": "You mean an example?"
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "start": 700.34,
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    "text": "A detailed list components."
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    "text": "Yeah"
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    "text": "You also have receptors and your gut microbiome communicating directly with your vagus nerve..."
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    "text": "so if the missing text was this type of breakdown and analytical categorization it represents a triumph."
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    "text": "It's very empowering."
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    "start": 938.08,
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    "text": "We're using our brains to step completely outside of subjective experience and objectively dismantle the various mechanics of perception."
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    "text": "Because this second definition completely shatters that entire sense of order."
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    "text": "It"
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    "start": 988.34,
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    "text": "No it becomes something much darker."
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    "text": "It's a medical pathology report or maybe a psychological study of catastrophic sensory overload."
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    "text": "The emotional resonance of the title shifts instantly, it goes from clinical triumph to just profound vulnerability."
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    "text": "What does this systemic breakdown in human senses actually look like neurologically?"
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    "text": "Because it rarely happens all at once"
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    "start": 1013.56,
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "text": "It usually involves slow degradation on pathways."
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    "text": "So the sensory organs themselves might be perfectly fine, but the cables transmitting the data to the brain start to fray."
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    "text": "Exactly!"
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    "text": "Think of demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis..."
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    "text": "Okay MS how did that work in this context?"
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    "text": "I think i've heard that"
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    "text": "a patient with visual agnosias has perfectly functional eyes and they optic nerves are fine."
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    "text": "so there blind"
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    "text": "not at all."
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    "text": "rarely and This Is where we see phenomena Like Charles bonnet syndrome."
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    "text": "The"
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    "text": "Exactly!"
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    "text": "like."
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    "text": "what kind of things?"
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    "text": "no usually their logical brain is totally intact, they know these Things aren't actually real."
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    "text": "yes wait Hold on, this is incredibly recursive."
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    "text": "If Charles Bonnet syndrome as the brain hallucinating visual data because the eyesight broke down?"
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    "text": "Aren't we doing the exact same thing intellectually right now?"
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    "text": "I want you to elaborate on that."
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    "text": "That's good."
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    "text": "look at it."
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    "text": "The source document...the text We have is broken..we Have a title but the body text Is completely missing."
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    "text": "okay i follow."
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    "text": "and in response To that information breakdown You And I are literally sitting here hallucinating, massive elaborate theories about neurology and philosophy in biology just to fill the empty space below."
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    "text": "It's exactly like receiving the cover of a jigsaw puzzle box with absolutely no tuzzle pieces inside –the coverage just says human senses break down."
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    "text": "are looking at the table of contents...for biological textbook?"
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    "text": "When you hold a puzzle box the image on the cover completely dictates your strategy for pieces."
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    "text": "if it's landscape, You hunt for blue sky piece"
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    "text": "both could be true"
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    "text": "And what really fascinating to me is that everyone who encounters title will automatically default to one hallucination or the other, based entirely on their own internal biases."
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    "text": "If you are a neurologist reading human senses breakdown You immediately envision paper on demyelination and agnosia."
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    "text": "And if your sociologist might imagine a critique of how smartphones are destroying our attention spans and causing societal sensory overload"
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    "start": 1350.3,
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    "text": "Right."
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    "text": "And if you are a poet, you might imagine a visceral exploration of grief so profound it literally dulls the physical senses."
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    "text": "and If You Are An Anxious Person someone who is acutely aware Of The Fragility Of The Human Body?"
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    "start": 1364.56,
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    "text": "You Will Lean Heavily Toward The Interpretation Of Systemic Failure!"
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    "text": "You will See The Title And Immediately Feel The Dread Of A Biological System Collapsing."
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    "text": "While A Highly Structured Analytical Thinker Will Default To The Categorization Interprecation they will seek comfort in the illusion of scientific control over the messy reality perception."
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    "text": "So, this document tells us literally nothing about actual human senses?"
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    "text": "Nothing!"
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    "text": "But it acts as a perfect flawless mirror reflecting the cognitive state whoever is trying to read it."
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    "start": 1394.2,
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    "text": "Which brings me into critical question I think."
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    "text": "What exactly happens in the brain when we seek this information?"
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    "text": "We enter a dopamine"
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    "text": "The text isn't there"
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    "start": 1526.36,
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    "text": "Oh wow!"
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    "text": "Exactly The amygdala which is the brains threat detection center might even activate slightly registering the unresolvable ambiguity As low level stressor."
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    "text": "We soothe our own amygdalas by projecting a hallucinated structure right onto The Void!"
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    "text": "I mean that makes me reconsider everything about how we consume media today because A dense long form book acts as a guardrail."
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    "text": "If I'm reading a five hundred page biography of Abraham Lincoln, the sheer mass data forces me down the author's intended path."
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    "text": "I can't just pretend it is a cookbook."
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    "start": 1631.02,
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "start": 1631.2,
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    "text": "The authors' words constrain your degrees of freedom and interpretation."
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    "start": 1634.6,
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    "text": "Completely frictionless."
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    "text": "We can slide it into almost any context we desire and the text can't fight back and say no that's not what I meant."
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    "text": "It is the ultimate passive document."
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    "start": 1656.32,
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    "text": "And you know, to demonstrate just how frictionless it is let's conduct a little exercise in context manipulation."
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    "start": 1661.3,
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    "text": "Oh"
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    "start": 1661.74,
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    "text": "okay"
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    "text": "I love this!"
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    "start": 1663.04,
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    "text": "We will take the exact same three words without altering a single letter and mentally place them into radically different physical environments to see how our hallucinated meaning mutates."
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    "text": "Okay Let's build some environment."
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    "start": 1675.1,
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    "text": "so start with really sterile clinical setting."
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    "text": "Imagine you find this single piece of paper With Just The Words excerpts from human senses breakdown human-sensitive breakdown, tucked inside a manila folder in a locked filing cabinet and an neurology ward."
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    "start": 1690.36,
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    "text": "Okay well In that context the words feel like a grim prognosis."
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    "text": "Yeah It reads as the cover sheet for a patient whose nervous system is rapidly inexplicably failing."
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    "text": "The absence of the text beneath the title doesn't feel Like A typo anymore."
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    "text": "it feels almost like a privacy measure."
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    "text": "Or it implies that the breakdown was so swift and so catastrophic, The doctors didn't even have time to write the report."
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    "text": "Oh!"
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    "start": 1711.8,
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    "text": "That's dark..."
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    "start": 1712.6,
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    "text": "The patient deteriorated before the ink could dry."
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    "text": "and the most embarrassing mundane situations?"
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    "text": "But leave us with something to really mull over Something that builds on this strange isolated phrase but pushes it even further into our own physical reality."
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    "text": "I can do that."
  },
  {
    "start": 2431.68,
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    "text": "Consider this We have spent time analyzing how are brains frantically attempt at filling missing information."
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  {
    "start": 2437.44,
    "end": 2440.64,
    "text": "when confronted with document titled human senses break down."
  },
  {
    "start": 2441.46,
    "end": 2452.02,
    "text": "We noted how much of our daily understanding of the world relies on merely reading the titles of things and letting our internal prediction engines just hallucinate the rest, but let's turn that lens inward for a second."
  },
  {
    "start": 2452.36,
    "end": 2470.24,
    "text": "Let's look at the phrase not as a document title, If your own human senses were experiencing a subtle systemic breakdown, if you're perception of reality was slowly degrading shifting or being filtered through a failing biological mechanism."
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  {
    "start": 2471.08,
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    "text": "How would you actually know?"
  },
  {
    "start": 2472.6,
    "end": 2473.04,
    "text": "Oh wow!"
  },
  {
    "start": 2473.1,
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    "text": "Because the very tools that are used to assess the integrity of your senses... Your sight to look for visual glitches.. Your hearing to check for distortion.... Your logical cognition to cross-reference your experiences Are the exact same tools breaking down."
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    "start": 2487.58,
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    "text": "You can't use a broken ruler to measure itself."
  },
  {
    "start": 2489.72,
    "end": 2490.28,
    "text": "Precisely!"
  },
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    "start": 2490.8,
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    "text": "If a mechanic's diagnostic computer has a corrupted hard drive, it cannot accurately diagnose its own corruption... if the instrument of measurement is compromised ...the measurement is entirely meaningless."
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    "start": 2501.96,
    "end": 2502.86,
    "text": "That is terrifying."
  },
  {
    "start": 2503.08,
    "end": 2514.9,
    "text": "So the ultimate question remains —if your senses were failing you at this very moment filtering out pieces reality would even possess the sensory tools required to perceive that information was completely missing?"
  },
  {
    "start": 2515.58,
    "end": 2517.24,
    "text": "Or would your brain simply hallucinate?"
  },
  {
    "start": 2517.3,
    "end": 2522.4,
    "text": "a seamless reality to cover up the void, leaving you completely unaware that are living in an illusion?"
  }
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