orthonormal comments on Mental Crystallography - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Alicorn 27 February 2010 01:04AM

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Comment author: Nisan 27 February 2010 07:05:03AM 14 points [-]

Is it true that people process things so differently?

Yes. I'd love to list a bunch of first- and second-hand anecdotal evidence for this, but anecdotal evidence is not great evidence. Instead, consider the example of synaesthesia, and the fact that synaesthetes can live for decades without realizing that not all people are synaesthetes. It's easy not to notice huge differences in the way people's minds work.

Comment author: orthonormal 28 February 2010 05:22:35PM 0 points [-]

Upvoted both the good question and the good answer.