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

31 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 05 December 2011 08:38AM

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 05 December 2011 09:06:22PM 3 points [-]

I've previously discussed "the beat" on here. Varying degrees of musicality seems to be a pretty pervasive theme in other comments and similar discussions.

Ooh. Here's one. I seem to have a faculty for formulating highly inappropriate or subversive responses to things. When asked "what's the most inappropriate personalised message to put on an easter egg?" I immediately come up with "lots of tiny swastikas spelling out 'fuck the police'". This is useful for comedic, literary and poetic purposes, and I can generally recognise other people who have the same faculty if I talk to them for a little while or appraise their work in any detail.

Staying on the subject of poetry, I also have an utterly fastidious and unrelenting need for perfect scansion in poetic verse. When I read or listen to the work of a poet or songwriter, I can generally tell if they have that same need. Over 160 years after his death, for example, I can tell that Edgar Allan Poe was driven to distraction by stray metric feet in the same way I am. If he wasn't, his work wouldn't be the way it is.

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2011 10:45:30AM 0 points [-]

I'm reminded of a scene in the novel Contact in which a character from Soviet Russia expresses his fondness for a button that reads "Pray for Sex". As he explains to the American main character: "In your county it is offensive in only one way, but in mine it is offensive in two different ways."