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They did remove the "don't be evil" from their company moto a while back...

Replaced it with "do the right thing", but perhaps missed a word for "do the far right thing"?

This also opens doors of inquiry into things like cognition engineering/crafting, cultivating specific "applications" or top level interfaces as means for wrangling other conceptual information.

Self directed cognitive speciation, of a sorts.

It's interesting noticing now after about a year of daily wearing augmentation devices, the mind's eye imagination for thermal information is no longer is just tactile but also spatial/visual based, as a separate sensation for conceptualizing.

Subjective phenomenology, n=1, and all that, but still

This whole field is niche, but fascinating for sure.

YouTube video by Curiosiate Sensory Weavers | Psychic Technology

I ran with a rearward lidar array on a wristband for about a year or so - gave a sort of "Spidey sense" behind me for 180° spatial awareness of movement.

Have since moved to a thermal array sensor module on the newer wearables, but still have some spatial awareness boosts.

youtu.be/-l-xtcU163I

There's a lot of different projects, compass orientation is one that's been done in a few different ways:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xySM...
blinry.org/compass-belt/
feelspace.de/en/

I'm slowly building a list of different devices that do these things:
wiki.curiosiate.com/Sensory-Weav...

You can turn basically any consistent patterns into a new sensory lattice to modify a perceptual manifold.

I've been daily augmenting in enhanced thermal awareness, which as a byproduct also increases spatial and conceptual awareness about the environment.

bsky.app/profile/curi...

New research in JEP: Human Perception and Performance from @xinchiyu.bsky.social et al. shows that prior semantic knowledge helps people remember brief glimpses of everyday objects, highlighting how memory and perception work together in daily life. Editor's Choice article: https://bit.ly/4gT8Prl

Wearing devices around day to day has made me realize just how strange new senses are, and how much filtering is done via *other* sensory inputs, for the conceptual modeling of the environment coupled into the new one. (And how various existing biological senses can do this process differently)

Sensory Weaver Mk2 - lockpick these are rough notes, mostly for the curious, and for myself/records sake. Enough for someone handy to get going perhaps.

curiosiate.com/sensory-weav... if into hardware stuff, rough notes about the older build.

DIY multi-purpose modular haptic ones I've been daily wearing the past couple years in different forms. Run thermal sensors as the daily use augment on them.

May be an architectural difference in location - run across metal around large poles, signs, larger strips in stores, etc semi-often

That case yes! Thought maybe there was some heating behind the wall initially before visually confirming. But when it is at an angle, while you are moving about it a space, doesn't always cleanly line up with the self, at least not mentally. It's more like flashes, glimmers of awareness of someone

Salience for doorhandles is admittedly less confusing, because the reflection is smaller in passing while scanning about, but there's a lot of larger sheets of random metal around and about, which I didn't notice until wearing the wristbands - not enough to outweigh the benefit of thermal, though.

It's more situations like this, where if at a distance, become confusing to map as not a person but rather *yourself* reflected in passing, if not able to either touch, or see what is going on, in terms of continually filtering conceptual information (person vs reflection). There's a lot thermally!

At least with basic thermal array sensors (MLX90640), just having *me* as the infrared source will reflect off certain metals in the environment while walking around, even doorhandles can do it.

(interestingly, mirrors don't reflect thermal information as well as shiny metal objects )

Ah no, I mean when you walk about an environment, things like sheet metal in elevators, around poles or other environmentals reflect thermal as well - filtering out those and other ambient thermal objects conceptually via vision, vs hearing.
More footsteps to discern if it was a person on thermal

Eg, directional sound of footsteps to filter if it was someone or a thermal reflection.

For visual -> conceptual filtering, I'd imagine that's faster and more direct to learn the thermal mappings, and actively filter the environment even months/years in, than going by sound coupling in conceptually.

Indeed - that's why I daily wear it! However, even with spatial distance filtering of thermals, there's conceptual filtering that plays in from other senses more easily via visual. Questions like "was that a person, or a thermal reflection off metal", or "is that someone, or a computer monitor".

I do wonder how much longer it would have taken to learn and map thermal awareness if blind, and not getting feedback visually for what/where thermal information spatially is.

Vision acts like a great multisensory glue, and proprioceptive feedback without it for "psychic" integration more tricky

Lots goes into forming the perceptual manifold moment to moment - very dynamic.

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Understanding the backend of how the mind builds models and navigates the symbols, can help potentially untangle and reverse engineer them, to allow better engagement. It's also a very very complex, living, self adapting and sealing system, and often ego-bound so questions feels like attacks on self

Coming from someone who's not a neuroscientist/psychologist/biologist, just curious about how the mind forms symbols (needed to make new senses via tech!), so shovel of salt.

It's even worse, because once synaptic pruning kicks in, concept inhibitions form, the DMN is in a top down model of the world, which is resistant to change.

Also, makes plasticity/working memory w/ less resources to hold those symbols in the perceptual manifold.
Similar functionality in religions

Our new study (Titled: Memory Loves Company) asks whether working memory hold more when objects belong together.

And yes, when everyday objects are paired meaningfully (Bow-Arrow), people remember them better than when they’re unrelated (Glass-Arrow). (mini thread)

YouTube video by Бос качалки Molehill and Terrance

youtu.be/S8QT15AULyU

two robots are standing in front of a machine with the number 05 on it Alt: Two white and black suited mechpilots operate giant moving machinery by walking, with various floating displays are in front of them

Reminds me of the Pacific Rim Jaeger suits for some reason.

Maybe it's the same impractical nature for operation. Cool in concept, showing up in sci-fi media perhaps... but in reality less practical.

The last one may just need therapy, not tech support 🤔

With perception as programmable, how do we maintain cognitive sovereignty without devolving into a licensing agreement long run?