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| Author: | Splatted [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Am I as clever as this says I am? |
I just stumbled this and thought it was a fun demonstration of the brains ability to adapt.  I've always found my experience with music to be very motivating when trying to learn something new. Despite not being very good at it when compared to other people, those years of practice have shown me how something that seems mindblowingly difficult can become second nature with enough practice, and I wondered if reading this might be a shortcut to the same realisation. |
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| Author: | amnal [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
This message appears to most people as a seemingly random muddle of letters and numbers. If you are reading it, your unusually super clever brain is decoding it before you even comprehend its contents. If you can read it, post it in as many places as possible so |
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| Author: | ez4u [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
Or a shortcut to the realization that our perception of what is difficult is actually badly calibrated to our capabilities? Clearly the reading task shown turns out to be rather easy for us. Are our brains amazingly clever or our preconceptions amazingly poor? |
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| Author: | Splatted [ Fri May 24, 2013 4:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
amnal wrote: This message appears to most people as a seemingly random muddle of letters and numbers. If you are reading it, your unusually super clever brain is decoding it before you even comprehend its contents. If you can read it, post it in as many places as possible so You get that the title was a joke right? The point was that it seems hard at first but by the time you reach the end it's really easy. |
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| Author: | palapiku [ Fri May 24, 2013 4:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
you're a bunch of geniuses |
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| Author: | Splatted [ Fri May 24, 2013 4:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
ez4u wrote: Or a shortcut to the realization that our perception of what is difficult is actually badly calibrated to our capabilities? Clearly the reading task shown turns out to be rather easy for us. Are our brains amazingly clever or our preconceptions amazingly poor? That's my point. Sometimes it's appropriate to judge difficulty by considering your current capability, but often it would be more helpful to judge by how hard it is to learn. |
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| Author: | Splatted [ Fri May 24, 2013 5:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
I can't help but find it ironic we all seem to feel the need to point out that we are superoir to the writer's attempts to make us feel superior. 
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| Author: | billywoods [ Fri May 24, 2013 6:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Am I as clever as this says I am? |
Splatted wrote: I've always found my experience with music to be very motivating when trying to learn something new. I'm similar - except, for "music", read "mathematics and (to a lesser extent) go". The brain is fantastic at spotting and internalising patterns. Though I must admit that most of my weakness in go is due to my reluctance to let go of patterns... |
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