One does wonder. I seem to remember the organic discussions being far more interesting than anything available now. Can't find those anymore. They've been replaced by aggressively boring and relentlessly woo-phobic infotainment like this:
Like, don't worry, it's all explainable by Science! Don't get any silly ideas about it.
But get ten or twenty people together to discuss their weird visual phenomena, and the pattern that seems to emerge is that it's rarely limited to *just* entopic phenomena. Those chats go very weird very fast. Entopic is just the stuff we're *allowed* to talk about because there's either an obvious physical explanation, or it's generic and meaningless enough to be papered over with scientific jargon. It feels like all such discussions have been (deliberately?) corralled into "safe spaces" dominated by "safe experts". The plebes will not be exploring the subject on their own anymore-- we will have experts sanitize the information and spoonfeed it back to them. Much like what happened to health info. Grassroots comparing-notes and self-experimenting? Gone. Replaced by professionally approved and curated info that never covers the questions you actually have, but just guides you inevitably into the same pre-ordained channels, like a rigged pachinko machine.
Re: Thank you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQT1MXfasM
Like, don't worry, it's all explainable by Science! Don't get any silly ideas about it.
But get ten or twenty people together to discuss their weird visual phenomena, and the pattern that seems to emerge is that it's rarely limited to *just* entopic phenomena. Those chats go very weird very fast. Entopic is just the stuff we're *allowed* to talk about because there's either an obvious physical explanation, or it's generic and meaningless enough to be papered over with scientific jargon. It feels like all such discussions have been (deliberately?) corralled into "safe spaces" dominated by "safe experts". The plebes will not be exploring the subject on their own anymore-- we will have experts sanitize the information and spoonfeed it back to them. Much like what happened to health info. Grassroots comparing-notes and self-experimenting? Gone. Replaced by professionally approved and curated info that never covers the questions you actually have, but just guides you inevitably into the same pre-ordained channels, like a rigged pachinko machine.