Thread by @NeckarValue

Love this post about 'The User Illusion'

"It’s counterintuitive but the value of information is determined by what’s discarded, or “exformation.” The quality of your consciousness, your entire waking life, will be determined by the quality of your information filters."

“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness consists of information no more than a person who consumes food can be said to consist of food. Consciousness is nourished by information the same way the body is nourished by food."

"The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.

The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there.”"

"Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman argues that our perception of the world is more akin to a desktop on a computer. An interface that helps us interact with the environment, but with all the unnecessary complexity hidden away."

"Search engines index 35 trillion web pages to serve you a handful of results in a second. That aggressive filtering role makes it equivalent to consciousness for the Internet. It turns the chaotic flood of external information into cognitive order."

"we’re seeing the version (of reality) best suited for what we need from an evolutionary perspective"

"normal consciousness is the first page of results, rather than the whole internet. We don’t need to see what’s on page 5 because it’s likely not relevant."

Insights from “The User Illusion.”

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