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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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not sure if i chose to post this (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by kali_fornication@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The electricity’s already halfway down your arm. Your body began to act a full half-second before your conscious self ‘chose’ to, for the self chose nothing; something else set your body in motion

What is this from?

I remember, years ago, hearing part of a (I think) Radiolab episode that was about this... Something about how our brains send the signal seconds before we're conscious of the thing, but I was never able to find the full episode after (and I definitely looked).

Anyone happen to know what episode I'm referring to, or did I hallucinate the entire experience?

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago

This is an excerpt from the excellent book "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. I cannot recommend it enough.