#mental chatter

[mario-breskic]

I have had a weird day, no, not a weird day: I have felt a stressful noise in my head earlier, like chatter I could not understand, and which only when focussing on it became words, emotions, memories maybe.

This worried me, because I realised that I have no idea what the cause for this noise is. Talking about it with a dear person close to me, I came to understand that while the both of us had a clear memory of when this head noise happened (which later turned out to be what our brains literally default to when unfocussed and unoccupied with external stimuli, called “default mode network”), I had no idea what the physiological causes for the sensation itself were, or in general are.

So I just went to ask Copilot, and you can see for yourself where that lead me to below

You can find the original upload on my arena account here https://www.are.na/block/31536061 with my comments on how two of these books (the more academic ones) are labelled wrong, but I will provide these comments here as well, but first I’ll link you to the commented pdf in my social archive:

Below are now the comments I made about this exchange with Copilot

First comment

Caveat lector: None of the Zoltan Torey books are called that, and “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory” is not by Rugg et Tulving. Take this as what it is, not what you want it to be.

Second comment

URLs from this interaction, to peruse at your own discretion:

Third comment

Further quizzing Copilot about the missing books lead to this:

“The Neuroscience of Mind: A Unified Theory of the Human Brain” by Zoltan Torey has the ISBN of 9780262530859 which is actually “Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of Mind/Brain: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain (Computational Models of Cognition and Perception)”

“The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory” by Michael D. Rugg and Endel Tulving has the ISBN of 9781848727724 which is actually “Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory (Special Issues of Cognitive Neuroscience)”

Close enough in case of the second book, but confused. See here https://x.com/MarioBreskic/status/1847402158439678279 or here https://social.mariobreskic.de/twitter/2024/10/19/380/ for my rubberducking/notepadding in public

End of comments

Interesting, right?

The noise in our heads, and what this noise defaults to, is literally the default mode of our brains. We, as far as I can understand it, rarely, if ever, idle. I don’t know if this default can be changed, but I’ll just be cheerful for no damn reason.

Copilot’s quality control for quoted and referenced books is meh, but I don’t think that will stop you from researching for yourself, now will it? Tagging this up with a few sensible hashtag guesses, keeping it away from the archive by not using the tag “code and canvas”, should hook it into tumblr’s internal knowledge database quite nicely.

[sspacegodd]

My favorite thing to talk about is how words are no longer necessary.

[hemlock-dreams]

You've kinda teased it with the first bartender-Petey art, but I wanna know more about White and Yellow. Is their relationship with Deadpool the same? How do they interrupt/talk/think about Petey? And spider-man!

Why bother healing when you can just develop a deeply unhealthy and extremely codependent relationship with your hot bartender bff and assign to them the burden of your wellbeing instead?

Peter makes the boxes go quiet. A double-edged sword.

And the boxes have a love/hate relationship with Peter. On one hand, they can use Peter to taunt Wade. On the other hand, Peter takes up Wade's attention so he's not hearing the boxes.

[egodb]

„How to be social“ ist meine Frage #2

(Part 1)

So, today, I became super self-conscious of my English enunciation, and had an imaginary conversation with an imaginary person (P) who showed some interest.

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P: That's an interesting accent!

Me: Thanks, I like to keep my diction accurate.

Me: Is this me dissing the American accent? It is, though.

Me: Is that rude?

Me: Welp, let's hope they don't notice.

P: Cool! I don't focus on it as much...

Me: Is this....is this it?

Me: OPEN THE GATES!

* inhales sharply *

Me: * with sparkling eyes * YeahIpayspecialattentiontoitbecauseImcurrentlystudyingSanskritgrammarandit'ssuperinteresting!Forinstance,there'sthesetwosūtras:thefirstoneisरषाभ्यांनोणःसमानपदेwhichmeansadentalnasalconsonantwhenprecededbyanalveolartaporareotroflexsibilantinthesameworditgetaconvertedtoaretroflexnasal,andthenextoneisअट्कुप्वाङ्नुम्व्यावयेऽपिwhichsaysthatifthefollowinglettersappearbetweenthetaporthesibilant,andthedentalnasal,itstillgetsconvertedtotheretroflexnasal.So,पाणिनिwasamazingatusingabbreviations,sothesūtrasaysअट्-कु-पु-आङ्-नुम्whichthemselvesareabbreviations.Like,अट्meansallvowels,semivowelsandह्.कुandपुmeanallthevelarandlabialconsonants.आङ्isaprefixasinगच्छतिistogoandआगच्छतिistocome,andनुम्isanotheraffix,notaprefixorsuffix,whichaddsadentalnasalafterthelastvowelinthebasicrootformofaverbundercertainconditions.So,ifanyofthesearebetweenthoseletters,thedentalnasalgetaconvertedtotheretroflex. And you need good diction to pronounce these sūtras perfectly otherwise it'd be impossible to parse them.

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...yeah, I don't know what happened to my imaginary interlocutor. I completely forgot they existed...which might actually happen if I do get started on stuff I'm intensely interested in... huh.

[deerspherestudios]

If anyone's wondering how the new VN for the Monstrous Desires jam is going,,

[teh-inggris]

what if Parkour Civ Evbo and PvP Civ Evbo switched places. what if.

[aldoodles]

I’m unable to do doomsday this year, so please have these two instead bc I care about them sm

[frostios]

drags my starved, bloody body out of the dark, obvious tears on my face. just finished reading a long and awesome fic. Dies

[royalarchivist]

Phil: Doin' a lot of traveling around the New Years. Oh boy, oof. Oh golly, oh gee. But it should be worth it! It should be really good. I'm looking forward to it, Kristin's looking forward to it.

Random Chatter: What about Tallulah and Chayanne?

Phil: I told them already what's going on. I already told them. They already know when I'm getting back and all that stuff, so.

Random Chatter: The cookies though?

Phil: [Shrugs] So? I'm... physically not here? [Laughs] There's more things - there's more important things in life than feeding a virtual egg cookies, I'm sorry to say, dude. [Laughs]

Random Chatter: Get Tubbo to feed eggs cookies.

Phil: [Laughs and mimics the chatter in an annoying voice] "Get this person!" "Get that person!" ALSO IGNORING THOSE PEOPLE ALSO HAVE LIVES! Jesus Christ. That says a lot about what you think of your streamer. Oh my god, dude. Let them have a fcking week off man! Let the Eggs have a week off, you kidding me? They're people, too, they're admins!

Random Chatter: The eggs need to live.

Phil: They do! By having a week off! [Laughs] Leave them alone! Holy fck! Good lord... If I- if- Dude. If anyone in my chat is genuinely like gonna come into stream, and like - be pissed off that different members of QSMP are just not logging in, I'm banning you on the spot, 'cuz that is so fcking toxically online of you. That is SO chronically online of you. You need to take a break, and I'm giving you that break. I'm forcing you to take a break from your PC. Fckin' get up from the - look away from the screen.

[karlachfan87]

roblox pressure fans don't be ableist challenge

edit: read the second part first

[turkitty5]

☁️ sweet dreams 💫

[cruel-hiraeth]

it’s wild to look back at how i was raised to believe that masturbation is evil and premarital sex is a grave sin and that people are supposed to repress their normal (and healthy) urges for the sake of religious piety. i’m glad i got out when i did; i think i would be a nightmare of a person if i couldn’t bust a nut on the regular LOL

[sspacegodd]

I can't stop thinking about stopping thinking.

[connorswhisk]

I paid this gentleman to stare at gay people

[inkykeiji]

kisses dabi right on his pouty scrunched up nose

( ੭ ˘ ³˘)੭‎°｡⋆♡‧₊˚ i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you!!!!!!!

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

everyone cheer and clap I brushed my teeth today AND yesterday