july

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“We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of imagination.” 

— David Lynch

In many ways, this is the closest that I felt to being an adult. I just didn’t expect this is what adulthood would feel like

On the narrowing of the imagination: I reckon it’s partially entropy, it’s not like we can avoid it, we cant be open minded forever, we all have a limited lifespan. But that doesn’t mean things have to come to an end, and that doesn’t mean we don’t get a fighting chance - if anything we narrow on things that don’t matter and expand on things that do

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

there's a cool neuro-scientific explanation with evolutionary roots for this, which goes something like:

uncertainty is metabolically costly for the mind to deal with, and so the brain actively predicts much of experience from what it has learned from the past (memory); so it can save energy for when it's really needed (like in situations of stress and danger)

the older you become, the more rigid these predictive patterns become - you become experientially blind (sometimes literally) to things happening around you, and resort to interpreting evermore habitually

tried to catch this more elaborately here gillesdc.com/brain/prediction

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