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  • I feel like you should probably do this study again outside of BYU and more generally outside of Utah, Mormon culture especially Utah Mormon culture is weird and could definitely fuck with a study like this.

    Though fun bit of personal experience with this exact scenario, my grandmother has better general visual awareness while my non visual awareness is a lot better overall. This means I subconsciously avoid things around me due to feel, sound, and smell but can be looking directly at something and not see it. Probably has something to do with the fact my eyesight is naturally fucked though, so my edge vision is basically useless for everything outside of movement since it’s basically just a blurry blob.

















  • I think theres growing consensus that tool use itself led to us becoming more intelligent, basically the group of great apes that humans and chimps came from that led to humans started to use tools at increasing rates which caused a feedback loop. Tools allow better resource exploitation while conserving energy and gaining more energy this basically caused evolution to throw everything into the dump stat that is intelligence which further worsened the feedback loop.