Relevant Good Feeling:
You read very fast, yet accurately!
I find this feeling funny, and nice, in a self-referential sort of way. The sentence itself can’t know how fast you read it, but it does assert that if you have read it, you’ve done it accurately. You may argue that it can’t know how accurately you have read the sentence, but I think it would be hard to prove that conclusively (until we have an ability to talk to sentences). It’s even more amusing that if we were ever to device such a scheme (bear with me) then we’d almost certainly have to use sentences to do it, and that would afford the sentences a pretty privledged position in any such “discussion”.
In an attempt to stay on topic, my advice for anyone who wants to trivially improve their reading speed (probably well-known, but nevertheless):
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Don’t read the words to yourself
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Try and read only “core” components of the sentence; flick your eyes to the middle of a sentence and you can probably figure out the and then the rabbit just grabbed the fish and left the market.
Apologies for that last joke. I promise this blog will get better once I have more practice. Anyway, if you are into self-referentiality, and interesting books in general, I highly recommend Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. As someone interested in AI and definitions of Consciousness, it’s quite interesting.
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