Extra interesting that your husband is less inclined to see an illusory face. I'd love to know what someone's sensitivity to illusory faces tells us about them or their brain.
What astute writing! This reminds me of how the US legally declares corporations as individual entities and thus provides them with certain rights of citizens. It's kind of wild to personify an organization as one collective mind or conscious being because that removes responsibility from those who actually run it. It's always good to recognize the existence of humanity when it's there—not to attribute it to an object!
And that’s precisely the fear. I love your line that it removes responsibility from those who actually run it. I didn’t touch on that much — but it’s so true. The actual agents are able to hide anonymously behind the essence of their organization.
That's actually in a place called 野柳 (Yeliu), it's more like the exposed area of a little fishing town. Beautiful geology there, windy. I have a lot of pictures of it. The face is real!
Yes. We're creatures of intention, and we see intention everywhere, even when it isn't there.
I always think of the example of a car. You could say "don't be too hard on the accelerator and the brakes - the car doesn't want you to do that." And all people who are familiar with cars would immediately understand.
It's not that the car has intention, it's that we have an easy time understanding the machine by thinking of what is good or bad for it. How our own interactions with the machine might change the machine itself. In this case, being hard on the inputs of the machine will unnecessarily wear it down.
A great example because it shows how our intentional system can interact with another "intentional" system. That's just how primed we are to categorize the world into beings with thought and feeling that mirrors our own.
Thanks for reading :-) (a personified emoji face!)
Love this topic. I always see faces on cars but my husband doesn't 😄
Extra interesting that your husband is less inclined to see an illusory face. I'd love to know what someone's sensitivity to illusory faces tells us about them or their brain.
Thanks for reading!
What astute writing! This reminds me of how the US legally declares corporations as individual entities and thus provides them with certain rights of citizens. It's kind of wild to personify an organization as one collective mind or conscious being because that removes responsibility from those who actually run it. It's always good to recognize the existence of humanity when it's there—not to attribute it to an object!
Thank you for the kind words 🤍
And that’s precisely the fear. I love your line that it removes responsibility from those who actually run it. I didn’t touch on that much — but it’s so true. The actual agents are able to hide anonymously behind the essence of their organization.
That's actually in a place called 野柳 (Yeliu), it's more like the exposed area of a little fishing town. Beautiful geology there, windy. I have a lot of pictures of it. The face is real!
Ah, thank you for the context. I have a close friend who visits often, and I can’t wait to make the trip myself.
Yes. We're creatures of intention, and we see intention everywhere, even when it isn't there.
I always think of the example of a car. You could say "don't be too hard on the accelerator and the brakes - the car doesn't want you to do that." And all people who are familiar with cars would immediately understand.
It's not that the car has intention, it's that we have an easy time understanding the machine by thinking of what is good or bad for it. How our own interactions with the machine might change the machine itself. In this case, being hard on the inputs of the machine will unnecessarily wear it down.
A great example because it shows how our intentional system can interact with another "intentional" system. That's just how primed we are to categorize the world into beings with thought and feeling that mirrors our own.
Thanks for reading :-) (a personified emoji face!)
Haha... well played.