kilobug comments on How is your mind different from everyone else's? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kilobug 05 December 2011 06:23:11PM 3 points [-]

I think the most different part in my mind is how I value sensory inputs very lowly compared to most people. I do enjoy (some) food, but I don't care much about it as long as it's not something I really dislike. I prefer games which are more abstract (like pen&paper role-playing games) over more graphically shiny games. I do enjoy sex, but much less than other people seem to enjoy it, and I would definitely not do much efforts just for sex (relationship is a different issue, but it's not the sex I value in it). I prefer, by far, to read books rather than to watch TV. I value much more "internal" things (feelings, ideas, planning, knowing, understanding, ...) than I value "external" things.

My other difference is that I tend to not visualize spatially things well (I prefer text over schema, I'm easily lost in a city, ...), but that comes from a birth defect that made me unable to see in 3d until I got a surgery at the age of 2.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 10 December 2011 05:25:03AM 0 points [-]

I would say I'm similar but my low reactance to sensory input drives me to seek out extreme inputs (positive signed).