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elnysa2017-08-07 10:00 pm
21stcenturyguy) wrote in elnysa2017-08-07 10:00 pm
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video | un: Crash Keys
Hey. This isn't one of those 'let's all get to know each other and be best friends' posts. I wanna know what you guys know about telepathy.
[Aoi holds a picture up to the camera. 'Picture' is probably a generous description.]
First, anyone know what this picture is?
Snake, before you even start, I fuckin' KNOW you can't see it, so I'm not asking you.
Don't cheat, just tell me what you think it's supposed to be.
If you're not into pictures, tell me about Archetypes from your world. There was a psychologist on Earth who noticed the same ideas pop up in various cultures that had no contact with one another. I want to see if that collective unconscious spans worlds too. So, I dunno, talk to each other about the legends and fairy tales and holidays and shit from your worlds and lemme know what common threads you find
The Follow-Up Video
[A couple of days later, when it seems like the majority of the people who are gonna weigh in have done so, Aoi makes a follow-up post.]
Alright, I know you all think I was tryin' to psychoanalyze you with the picture I showed you the other day, but trust me, you guys aren't that interesting. There's a right answer to the picture. I'll show you.
[He holds up the original picture and the solution to the screen.]
Some crackpot psychologist did an experiment to test the transference of knowledge through unseen means. He showed a picture like this to a population of people, and the distribution of answers was pretty random, same as you guys'. Then he broadcast the answer to that population. When he went to a to a remote location that had no contact with anyone from Population A. When he showed the same picture, there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage of people who knew the answer.
Even though nobody had consciously shared the information, because more people knew it, the answer was somehow transmitted. So that's the theory of Morphic Resonance.
[Aoi holds a picture up to the camera. 'Picture' is probably a generous description.]
First, anyone know what this picture is?
Snake, before you even start, I fuckin' KNOW you can't see it, so I'm not asking you.
Don't cheat, just tell me what you think it's supposed to be.
If you're not into pictures, tell me about Archetypes from your world. There was a psychologist on Earth who noticed the same ideas pop up in various cultures that had no contact with one another. I want to see if that collective unconscious spans worlds too. So, I dunno, talk to each other about the legends and fairy tales and holidays and shit from your worlds and lemme know what common threads you find
[A couple of days later, when it seems like the majority of the people who are gonna weigh in have done so, Aoi makes a follow-up post.]
Alright, I know you all think I was tryin' to psychoanalyze you with the picture I showed you the other day, but trust me, you guys aren't that interesting. There's a right answer to the picture. I'll show you.
[He holds up the original picture and the solution to the screen.]
Some crackpot psychologist did an experiment to test the transference of knowledge through unseen means. He showed a picture like this to a population of people, and the distribution of answers was pretty random, same as you guys'. Then he broadcast the answer to that population. When he went to a to a remote location that had no contact with anyone from Population A. When he showed the same picture, there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage of people who knew the answer.
Even though nobody had consciously shared the information, because more people knew it, the answer was somehow transmitted. So that's the theory of Morphic Resonance.
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[Aoi sighs. He's already done so much talking, but looks likes he's gonna be doing some more.]
Archetypes are like the wise old mentor or the madonna or the trickster figure. They pop up in stories and legends across cultures.
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[He's disappointed but, well... not disappointed either because it means he sort of knows where he is.]
Yeah we got several versions of those. Where I was born there's kitsune, but in other cultures there are coyotes, crows, rabbits...
This could take a while.
Do you want some specific stories? Or things that aren't myths?
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[Aoi shrugs. It's hard to guess something cultures have in common.]
Like, I dunno. How about Santa Claus? You know about him?
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Good, because around here sometimes I feel completely out of my depth.
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You know, I'll just leave you to this 'cause it seems like you got your own things you need to work out. Have fun getting to know everyone.
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[A guy can't gather pseudoscientific data in peace, is what he's learning.]