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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
14·3 years agoThe example with gravity is interesting indeed. We have only acceleration sensors behind our ears, but our body notices the pressure of the body tissue pressing down towards the gravity. And obviously, we also feel gravity when moving.
However, the difference to magnetism is, that we frankly don’t have any contact with magnets during our evolution - except for the earth’s magnetic field.
Even if we are able to sense it, it’s definitely far from being able to reliably feel it like we do for gravity.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
9·3 years agoGood point! 😄
We also don’t have any feeling of how that’s like!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
11·3 years agoFinally mens nipples get something to be useful at.
I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
7·3 years agoFair point, but then, most people don’t have this.
And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.
This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.
Though I’m definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
9·3 years agoFair point, I didn’t know about that. But even then, most of us don’t feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
164·3 years agoI have to disagree there regardless of how one interprets “know”.
If you mean “know intuitively”, then we don’t, precisely because we have no sensors for it and hence no experience with it. We intuitively know light, because we sense it and know what to expect in a closed room with no light source.
If you mean it scientifically, then light and magnets are extensively studied and far from “know nothing about it”. Our knowledge of light, magnetism and sound is very good on all levels.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical expertsEnglish
10·3 years agoSounds like a black mirror episode - if it weren’t actually possible reality…
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World News@lemmy.world•New revelations from the Snowden archive surfaceEnglish
331·3 years agoThe possibility (reality?) of CPU backdoors which make it possible for them to bypass cryptography and hence encryption completely is a full game changer. This is a thing that I was only suspecting but now we have more concrete evidence that this actually happens.
And I was called paranoid for this ^^
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World News@lemmy.world•Letter shows Vatican knew about Nazi death camps despite long denialEnglish
3·3 years agoExactly.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
1·3 years agoEven if we use an algorithm to make the decision, the execution needs trust and cooperation from society and industry etc. This is a real big thing and democratic voting partially legitimises the chosen actions so that people are willing to cooperate. This isn’t trivial when a computer does this.
I really don’t think, that resource allocation is the root cause problem here.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
1·3 years agoI think resource allocation fails primarily due to either authoritarian political systems with their psychological bias or democratic systems where neither voters nor politicians make an sustained effort to be scientifically calibrated and instead aim for popularity and people pleasing. IMO this is why democracies fail to achieve the best outcomes. As a consequence, resources as not well allocated.
People tend to forget, that labour unions were a compromise created after workers got angry of the exploitation so much that they raided the factory owners and killed them.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We don't know what our boogers smell like - it's the default smell for us.
1·3 years agoWell there is at least the hide post option…
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World News@lemmy.world•Nazi symbols and child pornography found in German police chatsEnglish
2·3 years agoacab =?
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Technology@lemmy.world•When searching for chrome on edge browser, you get so many popups that they completely block the screen. Nice one microsoft.English
51·3 years agoso pathetic. many people download Chrome or firefox add their browser on their first time on an Windows. it’s completely automatic these days in their brain. these people still get even more convinced of their opinion by this interception

it’s it though?
in our Fediverse bubble yes.
but so many average people just don’t care.