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eMTe's world of Freethought (but beyond)

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Here's the idea to discuss: (now some of you may be accustomed to my, not always coherent ideas and forum posts over the years, but this is 200% sober and in development)

Recently (2 years of observation and going, the phenomenon may be growing inside me for a longer period) I have discovered a strange phenomenon: I gave it a working English-language title "sector-pushing".

This is not the place to discuss the idea, which covers varied knowledge domains, thoroughly (I stay in contact with psychologists, neurolinguists, even coders etc), but I try to ask about it wherever I can, in simplistic manner.

Basically, we all have varied interests. From proverbial stamp collection to geopolitics. People in modern times had and pursued them. Except in-depth psychos, people generally have at least more than one interest, even if one or more of these interests/hobbies is work or family related (like, spending time with your kids in playground can be classified as a hobby, as much as reading Scandinavian-type crime books, playing Amiga games, travelling, whatever).

What Ive observed recently though, having formerly varied and simultaneous interests (solitary listening to music, playing retro games, mountain hiking, biking, running, porn-watching, drinking, travelling), I am losing it.

Decade ago, I was covering all this. Now, things come in waves.

For example, I experience a period of re-interest in Genesis (which is one of my fav bands), buying and reading books about them, following news about aging Phil Collins. Then something clicks and I shift to mountain-hiking, which I claimed to abandon COMPLETELY and I FORGET about Genesis. Then I shift back to my former interest in Amiga, write posts on Lemon for a couple of weeks/months. Then I get bored with you, guys, and attend classical or medieval music concerts (yes, this is one of my interests). Etc.

Just decade ago it was possible to meander within all these. Now, interests are pushed along.

Of course, there is a common knowledge that internet Fb YouTube blah blah blah increased the share of data everyone is capable of processing. Youth is getting nervous and confused due to addiction to smartphones, grownups mix up wars and porn within their capacity and become numb in result, etc.

But this is still not the idea I am talking about.

Here comes the bottom and interesting and wildest part: I believe the confusion (I believe it is fake confusion) that we all experience, living in different areas of the world, is actually similar to what Diskeeper on our PCs does to the hard disk areas.

Human brain doesnt (what is a common belief, and contrary to Diskeeper) organise data around to make imaginary Turing machine data work "faster".

Human brain creates "blocks". And they are not mathematical down-to-zero imaginary dots. Contrary. They are Chinese-type large districts.

Now, these large districts push other districts to the side etc etc. We have become obsessed on observing quarks and bozons, the smallest observable measureables. But is the single atom proof of an existing pattern?
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