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[21stcenturyguy]

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.

Comments

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[punshots]

Hang on, is this one of those magic-eye pictures where you're supposed to cross your eyes and count to five?

[ Give him a moment to squint at the picture again... ]

A-anyway, it's a...Dalmatian up close?

[ Nailed it. ]

[21stcenturyguy]

They say if you do that too much, your eyes will stick that way.

[It's not true, of course, but it doesn't mean Aoi can't troll.]

But no, looks like that didn't work, 'cause you got it wrong. Dalmation's not the worst answer I've heard all day, though, I'll give you that.

[punshots]

H-hey, not the worst! I'll take it! [ No, really, he sounds genuinely enthused, if a bit sheepish at the same time. ]

So...how does this work, exactly? I keep guessing until I get it right, or are you...psychoanalyzing me, or something?

[21stcenturyguy]

Nah, you don't have to keep guessing. There's a right answer, and the test is to see if you know it, not if you can blindly stumble on it guessing.

I'll explain more once people are done guessing. It's not psychoanalysis, don't worry. I won't uncover your dark secrets.

[punshots]

Phew! H-heh, what a relief.

[ No, really. His tone is jovial, but he really doesn't need to be scrutinized so closely. ]

So...what is it a test for, then? Is it one of those...picture-inside-a-picture things?

[ You know, that say something about perspective or whatever. ]

[21stcenturyguy]

[Aoi just links Prompto the response video that can now be found at the bottom of the original post.]

[punshots]

[ And after reviewing it... ]

Oh man! [ A high-pitched whine. ] It's so obvious now! Did anyone get it right the first time?

[ He's not the only one who went the Dalmatian route, is he? ]

[21stcenturyguy]

A couple people got it right.

[More people picked 'dog', to be honest. At least Prompto is in good company.]

It's a little like an optical illusion, in that once you see the shape within the image, it's hard to unsee it.

[punshots]

[ Dog is the superior answer, obviously. ]

Yeah, no kidding. I can't see anything else now. Soooo...this basically proves telepathy is a thing?

[ Is that what he's getting at here? ]

[21stcenturyguy]

No, this phase of the experiment is to establish a control group. Of a given population, only about 1/5 of people can see or guess the image correctly.

The thing that would 'prove telepathy' would be if I tested another group and the proportion of the population who got it right went up significantly.

[He waves a hand dismissively.] There's other factors to consider, but that's the simple version. This test was more to illustrate the concept, though. I wanted to see if anyone else was familiar with the idea.

[punshots]

Uh-huh. I...see.

[ He doesn't. ]

And you just did this for kicks and giggles, or what?

[21stcenturyguy]

[Um, this guy's not the brightest, is he? Aoi's not gonna waste his time explaining it more if this guy's obviously not gonna get it.]

Yeah, I'm just really into puzzles. I live for this shit.

[punshots]

[ Hey, everyone needs a hobby. ]

So you're gonna do this kind of thing often? Posting brain-teasers, or whatever?

[21stcenturyguy]

Nah, i don't think so. It takes too long to keep explaining the answers to the idiots that don't get it.

[punshots]

[ Oh, so people like him, got it. ]

Hey! Some of us like to call it "thinking outside the box".

[21stcenturyguy]

I mean, call it whatever helps you sleep at night. Doesn't make any difference to me.

[punshots]

"Thinking outside the box" it is, then.