Ah. I gloss that one as “discomfort” when describing my own experiences, but I see how it’d also be fine to consider it entirely distinct.
Reminds me of a thing I’m personally encountering quite a bit lately. I’ll notice something about my experience in a way that seems unusual compared to what many others notice. Upon interrogating it, sometimes it turns out that the experiencing is due to my brain being weird, and other times it turns out that it’s a universal experience that brain quirks are causing me to notice or describe differently from how others would.
Stimulants won’t change the underlying fact that there are more excellent things to do in the world than time to do them in, but IMO they can help fine-tune how much of your attention is devoted to that fact while you’re also doing some other task. Sounds almost koanical—“if there are 3 other amazing things I could be doing right now, but I’m not worrying about them, are is it a problem?” =)
Hm, I’m not sure whether or not I agree here. I lean towards thinking that most of the time you can have a pretty vague idea of what it is you’re measuring.
English is kind of a problem for this, because we use the same word for rigorously testing a hypothesis or for changing stuff to see what happens. I attempt the gesture of applying the term “experiment” only to the former, but I ultimately don’t do so with the rigor it would take to make any significant difference in the world around me. I think “experimental” tends to imply the latter over the former, but that implication isn’t robust or global enough to make it ultimately worth caring much about.
Thank you for explaining!
Ah. I gloss that one as “discomfort” when describing my own experiences, but I see how it’d also be fine to consider it entirely distinct.
Reminds me of a thing I’m personally encountering quite a bit lately. I’ll notice something about my experience in a way that seems unusual compared to what many others notice. Upon interrogating it, sometimes it turns out that the experiencing is due to my brain being weird, and other times it turns out that it’s a universal experience that brain quirks are causing me to notice or describe differently from how others would.
Stimulants won’t change the underlying fact that there are more excellent things to do in the world than time to do them in, but IMO they can help fine-tune how much of your attention is devoted to that fact while you’re also doing some other task. Sounds almost koanical—“if there are 3 other amazing things I could be doing right now, but I’m not worrying about them, are is it a problem?” =)
English is kind of a problem for this, because we use the same word for rigorously testing a hypothesis or for changing stuff to see what happens. I attempt the gesture of applying the term “experiment” only to the former, but I ultimately don’t do so with the rigor it would take to make any significant difference in the world around me. I think “experimental” tends to imply the latter over the former, but that implication isn’t robust or global enough to make it ultimately worth caring much about.